Research Catalog

Title

Don't start me to talking : plays of struggle and liberation / the selected plays of John O'Neal ; edited with select introductory material by Theresa Ripley Holden.

Author

O'Neal, John, 1940-2019

Publication

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Holden, Theresa Ripley

Description

xxviii, 446 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Artist and activist John O'Neal is best known for his Junebug Jabbo Jones cycle of plays, a remarkable collection of tales and anecdotes drawn from African American oral literature, which he has performed all over the globe. Four of these plays are included in this volume, along with four of O'Neal's other works: large-scale ensemble productions, first performed by his ensemble company Junebug Productions, as well as in collaboration with A Travelling Jewish Theater (San Francisco, California), Roadside Theater (Kentucky), and Pregones Theater (Bronx, New York). John O'Neal co-founded the Free Southern Theater in 1963 as a cultural arm of the southern Civil Rights movement, as well as Junebug Productions, a professional African American arts organization in New Orleans. For FST, O'Neal worked as a field director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and worked as national field program director with the Committee for Racial Justice. He has written eighteen plays, a musical comedy, poetry, and several essays, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, France, and Scandinavia. He is the recipient of the Award of Merit from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the United States Artists Award, and a Ford Foundation Award"--

Uniform Title

Plays. Selections

Alternative Title

• Plays.
• Selected plays of John O'Neal

Subject

• DRAMA / American
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
• African Americans > Drama
• Civil rights workers > Drama
• Southern States > Race relations > Drama

Genre/Form

• American drama – 20th century.
• American drama – 21st century.
• American drama – African American authors.
• Storytelling.
• Drama

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Over my head I see freedom in the air / a foreword by Charles Cobb -- Maybe these young people can sit me down / a foreword by Steve Kent -- A personal invitation : With my mind stayed on freedom! / an introduction by John O'Neal -- A historical note / by Theresa Ripley Holden --
• The Junebug Jabbo Jones plays, volumes I-V. Storytelling : plays and our imagination : a note about the Junebug Jabbo Jones plays / by Theresa Ripley Holden -- Don't start me to talking or I'll tell everything I know : Sayings from the life and writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones, volume I -- You can't judge a book by looking at the cover : Sayings from the life and writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones, volume II -- Ain't no use in going home, Jodie's got your gal and gone : Sayings from the life and writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones, volume III -- 'Til the midnight hour : Sayings from the life and writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones, volume IV -- Trying ro find my way back home : Sayings from the life and writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones, volume V --
• Like poison ivy : indigo variations --
• The collaborations. Junebug/Jack / co-created by Junebug Productions, Roadside Theater ; co-written by John O'Neal, Ron Short, Donna Porterfield -- Promise of a love song / co-created by Junebug Productions, Pregones Theater, Roadside Theater ; co-written by John O'Neal, Ron Short ; adapted text by Rosalba Rolón -- Crossing the broken bridge / co-created and written by John O'Neal, Junebug Productions, Naomi Newman, A Traveling Jewish Theatre ; Steve Kent, director.

ISBN

• 9781559364195
• 155936419X

LCCN

^^2015048742

OCLC

• 948330702
• SCSB-12679882

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library