Seven Black Plays
Author: Chuck Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
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Best Black Plays
Author: Chuck Smith
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2007-07-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0810123908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree 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
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Seven Guitars
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-08-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1101173696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer 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.
I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays
Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010-09-17
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0822393050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972), and Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 X 2 (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood’s introduction illuminates Sanchez’s stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.
Black to Play!
Author: Gunnar Dickfeld
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-01-25
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 3940563757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than four thousand years people have been fascinated by the Asian strategic board game Go. It has always been regarded as a beneficial way to foster creative thinking. This workbook is dedicated to players who would like deepen their understanding of the game. The exercises are limited to the most important topic: opening, capturing races, life and death, tesuji, invasions and endgame. The degree of difficulty of the exercises within each chapter varies from easy to challenging. You will train your perception of local positions and improve your skills for actual games accordingly. You will enjoy seeing your understanding of the game improve, and learn to surprise your friends and playing partners with deft moves.
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy
Author: Ryan Calais Cameron
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-04-08
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1350419400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Inspired by Ntozake Shange's essential work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is a profound and playful work, co-commissioned by Boundless Theatre, from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. For Black Boys... gained critical acclaim for the world premiere in October 2021 at New Diorama Theatre, before successfully transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in March 2022. This edition was published to coincide with the West End production at the Apollo Theatre in March 2023.
The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0307433846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
As You Like it
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1810
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack Theatre
Author: Paul Carter Harrison
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2002-11-08
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1566399440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenerating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."
