Black Theatre USA Revised and Expanded Edition, Vol. 1 : Plays by African Americans from 1847 to Today

by James V. Hatch; Ted Shine

• ISBN13: 9780684823089
• ISBN10: 068482308X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

A collection of 51 plays that features previously unpublished works, contemporary plays by women, and the modern classics.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Amiri Baraka
Acknowledgments	xv
SOCIAL PROTEST
Mulatto	4	(20)
Langston Hughes
Native Son	24	(43)
Richard Wright
Paul Green
FAMILY LIFE
Take a Giant Step	67	(37)
Louis Peterson
A Raisin in the Sun	104	(43)
Lorraine Hansberry
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men	147	(34)
Lonne Elder III
The Tumult and the Shouting	181	(42)
Thomas Pawley
COMEDY AND SATIRE
Limitations of Life	223	(3)
Langston Hughes
On Strivers Row	226	(38)
Abram Hill
Day of Absence	264	(19)
Douglas Turner Ward
CHURCH AND GOD
The Amen Corner	283	(33)
James Baldwin
The Confession Stone	316	(17)
Owen Dodson
MODERN WOMEN WRITING ON WOMEN
Funnyhouse of a Negro	333	(11)
Adrienne Kennedy
Wine in the Wilderness	344	(19)
Alice Childress
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide....	363	(5)
Ntozake Shange
Sally's Rape	368	(13)
Robbie McCauley
BLACK THEATRE FOR BLACK PEOPLE
Dutchman	381	(11)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Goin' a Buffalo	392	(27)
Ed Bullins
Prayer Meeting: Or, The First Militant Preacher	419	(4)
Ben Caldwell
Contribution	423	(9)
Ted Shine
Blk Love Song #1	432	(19)
Kalamu ya Salaam
NEW PLAYS, NEW IDEAS, NEW FORMS
The Colored Museum	451	(22)
George C. Wolfe
The Mojo and the Sayso	473	(18)
Aishah Rahman
Fires in the Mirror	491	(10)
Anna Deavere Smith
Bibliographies	501	(4)
About the Authors	505