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Kalamu Ya Salaam

KALAMU YA SALAAM  

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aka Val Ferdinand

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below is a list of Kalamu Ya Salaam's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Black Liberation Army         Black Love Song 1         Cop Killer         Destruction of the American Stage, The         Homecoming         Mama         Picket, The         Song of Survival

Black Liberation Army

Synopsis:
Consciously aware Blacks attempt to enlighten their siblings to the needs of Blacks.

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1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1969

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Genre:
Didactic Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 BM, 1 BF

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Black Love Song 1

Kalamu Ya Salaam
The positive and negative images of black life

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1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1969

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Black Theatre USA: Plays By African Americans volume Two" published by Free Press 1996    978-0684823072

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Genre:
Ritual One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 3 BF, Fxtras

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Cop Killer

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1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1968

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Genre:
One Act

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Destruction of the American Stage, The

Synopsis:
The White Stranger (Devil) at-tempts to corrupt black people and succeeds with some whose conscious-ness of black unity is undeveloped

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Genre:
Ritual One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  5 BM, 2 BF, chorus, Fxtras

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Homecoming

Synopsis:
After being subjected to the racism of the mili-tary, returning black veteran is not the same man he was prior to leaving home

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1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1969

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Genre:
Domestic Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 4 BF, 1 WM

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Mama

Synopsis:
Members of a black family try desperately to keep unified family group by trying to get each other to examine themselves

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1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1968

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Genre:
Domestic Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BM, 3 BF

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Picket, The

Synopsis:
Black man attempts to show the double standards a civil rights activist has set up for white and black families

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1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1968

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Genre:
Didactic Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM 2 BF, 1 WF

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Song of Survival

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Tom Dent

1st Produced:
EST, Blkartsouth, New Orleans, La    1969

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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