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Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
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Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be so to survive. Now, the 1950s are yielding to the the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s. The world he has learned to deal with is changing, leaving him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Memphis Lee's diner--and the rest of his block--is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city's renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. As they try to fight back, we meet Sterling, the ex-con who embraces the tenets of Malcolm X; Wolf, the bookie who has learned to play by the white man's rules; Risa, a waitress of quiet dignity who has mutilated her legs to distance herself from men; and Holloway,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Is God Is follows two twin sisters who undertake a dangerous journey to exact revenge upon their father at the behest of their ailing mother. Drawing on a diverse set of influences, including ancient tragedy, absurdism, Spaghetti Westerns, and Afropunk, Harris creates an explosive epic that examines the cyclical nature of violence. What to Send Up When it Goes Down uses a series of vignettes made up of songs, soliloquies and dialogues that range...
Publisher
Applause
Pub. Date
�1997.
Language
English
Description
The humor of African-American life is inextricably tied to the humor on the African-American stage, its character shaped by the contradictions of being Black and Bewildered and Bothered in the New World. It is a humor that breathes sanity and humanity in the midst of profound circumstances. To find logic in this existence is at the heart of the African-American comic odyssey.
Writers who understand the mythic comic paradigm articulate the rage, the...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The only literary collaboration between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, this play marked a turning point in African-American theater. This volume tells the story of the play's conception and inspiration and gives complete details of the irreparable rift in Hurston and Hughes's friendship that came about because of it. Also included is Hurston's short story, "Bone of Contention."
Publisher
Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater reflects this fantastic legacy, containing 25 ten-minute plays originally produced by the eponymous festival. Together, these pieces bookend the Black experience in the US from 2009 to the present day: from the hope for further progress and equity under the Obama administration, to the existential threat faced by Black people under...
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