Monologues for Actors of Color: Men

by Uno; Roberta

• ISBN13: 9780878300716
• ISBN10: 0878300716
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
The Monologues
Before It Hits Home	1	(2)
Cheryl L. West
Blade to the Heat	3	(2)
Oliver Mayer
Born in the R. S. A.	5	(4)
Barney Simon
cast
A Bowl of Beings	9	(4)
Culture Clash
A Branch of the Blue Nile	13	(2)
Derek Walcott
The Chickencoop Chinaman	15	(2)
Frank Chin
Cleveland Raining	17	(6)
Sung Rno
Cloud Tectonics	23	(2)
Jose Rivera
The Colored Museum	25	(4)
George C. Wolfe
Coyote City	29	(2)
Daniel David Moses
The Crossroads	31	(2)
Joue Kossi Efoni
Cuba and His Teddy Bear	33	(2)
Reinaldo Povod
Day of Absence	35	(4)
Douglas Turner Ward
Death and the Maiden	39	(6)
Ariel Dorfman
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing	45	(2)
Tomson Highway 43
Dutchman	47	(4)
LeRoi Jones
Education Is Our Right	51	(2)
Drew Hayden Taylor
El Grito de las Minas	53	(2)
Anthony J. Garcia
Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life	55	(4)
Pomo Afro Homos
Fires in the Mirror	59	(4)
Anna Deavere Smith
The First Breeze of Summer	63	(4)
Leslie Lee
Fish Head Soup	67	(2)
Philip Kan Gotanda
for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much	69	(4)
Keith Antar Mason
49	73	(4)
Hanay Geiogamah
The Gate of Heaven	77	(4)
Lane Nishikawa
Victor Talmadge
I Am a Man	81	(2)
OyamO
I Hate	83	(2)
Bernardo Solano
A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death	85	(2)
Fred D'Aguiar
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	87	(2)
August Wilson
A Language of Their Own	89	(4)
Chay Yew
Latins Anonymous	93	(2)
Latins Anonymous
The Lion and the Jewel	95	(6)
Wole Soyinka
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	101	(4)
August Wilson
The Meeting	105	(4)
Jeff Stetson
Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown	109	(4)
Guillermo Reyes
The Mighty Gents	113	(4)
Richard Wesley
Miriam's Flowers	117	(4)
Migdalia Cruz
The Mojo and the Sayso	121	(2)
Aishah Rahman 119
Night of the Assassins	123	(4)
Jose Triana
Paper Angels	127	(2)
Genny Lim
Roosters	129	(2)
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
The Talented Tenth	131	(4)
Richard Wesley
Talking in Tongues	135	(2)
Winsome Pinnock
Talk Story	137	(2)
Jeannie Barroga
Toronto at Dreamer's Rock	139	(4)
Drew Hayden Taylor
Weebjob	143	(4)
Diane Glancy
X	147	(4)
Thulani Davis
Yankee Dawg You Die	151	(2)
Philip Kan Gotanda
Zooman and the Sign	153	(3)
Charles Fuller
Acknowledgments	156	(1)
Permissions and Play Sources	157