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New plays for the Black theatre / edited by Woodie King, Jr.
- Title
- New plays for the Black theatre / edited by Woodie King, Jr.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Third World Press, [c1989]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS628.N4 N48 1989 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-
- Description
- v, 312 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Black theatre gives the world a truer picture of what is happening with us on a day to day basis because we very seldom depict the past in our work; we create the present. You can note this in all of the plays in this anthology. Our political situation is a guide for most of the darker peole of the world ... The politics of Black theatre is a cry for change and for all that that means, whether we are on a university campus, in a non-profit resident theatre, or on Broadway. The politics of our 'being there' causes traumatic repercussions ... "--From Introduction, page 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Song / Amiri Baraka -- The fallen angel / Elois Beasley -- Birth of a blues / Ben Caldwell -- Hospice / Pearl Cleage -- Konvergence / P.J. Gibson -- Every goodbye ain't gone / Bill Harris -- Tophat / Paul Carter Harrison -- Zora / Laurence Holder -- Parting / Nubia Kai -- The box / Daniel Owens -- Mary Goldstein / Oyamo -- Daddy says / Ntozake Shange -- The past is the past / Richard Wesley -- Pain in my heart / Rob Penny -- The quest / Kalamu ya Salaam.
- ISBN
- 0883781247 :
- LCCN
- ^^^89050268^
- OCLC
- 19868358
- SCSB-11374528
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library