From Governor General's Award-winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community. Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintergration of her marriage and an eccentric elderly father on an ...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy. "Harlem Duet" could be the prelude to Shakepeare's "Othello," and recounts the tale of Othello and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, ...
A collection of plays written and produced by Canada's leading black writers and playwrights, including Whylah Falls , by George Elliot Clarke, Riot , by Andrew Moodie, Comed Good Rain , by George Seremba, Sistahs , by Maxine Bailey and Sharon Lewis, Harlem Duet , by Djanet Sears, Coups and Calypsos , by Norbese Philip, Prodigal in a ...
"Volume II "features critical introductions to each of the 11 plays, which include: "Angelique" by Lorena Gale; "Consecrated Ground" by George Boyd; "Common Man's Guide to Loving Women by Andrew Moodie; "El Paso" by Michael Miller; and "Adventures of a Brown Girl in Search of a God" by Djanet Sears.
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sister Vision/ Black Women and Women of Colour Press
Date Published: 1990
Description: A fine copy. [AFRO-CANADIAN DRAMA: MUSIC]. SEARS, Djanet. AFRIKA SOLO. Music Composed by Allen Booth, Djanet Sears, and Rudi Quammie Williams. Large octavo, glossy pictorial wrappers, 104 pages, illustrated. Afrika Solo is a one-woman show that humorously chronicles a young black woman's voyage of self-discovery. " Djanet Sears is of "Caribbean parentage and of North American/ British upbringing. read more
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