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Seven Black Plays

Author: Chuck Smith

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Published: 2004

Total Pages: 518

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Seven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.

Best Black Plays

Author: Chuck Smith

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2007-07-27

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0810123908

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Three winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.

Black Female Playwrights

Author: Kathy A. Perkins

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1990-10-22

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0253113660

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"Fine reading and a superb resource." -- Ms. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -- Choice "As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." -- Voice Literary Supplement "Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]." -- Theatre Journal The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.

Black Heroes

Author: Errol Hill

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781557830272

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Includes plays by Langston Hughes, Randolph Edmonds, May Miller, William Branch, Edgar White, Phillip Hayes Dean, and Ron Milner

Seven Guitars

Author: August Wilson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-08-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1101173696

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts. August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In)

Author: August Wilson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0593184963

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NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her Black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage, of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of racial exploitation.