Ishmael Reed
The Plays
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2009
540 pages
978-1-56478-777-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ishmael Reed's career as one of our great playwrights has long been eclipsed by his other work. Here published for the first time, Reed's plays follow the ancient tradition of using the theater as a forum in which the official versions of our history can be critiqued. Dealing with subjects that mainstream theatergoers might find disturbing-homelessness, the arbitrary entrapment of a black politician, the excesses of the radical feminist movement, the use of black conservatives to promote right-wing agendas, the exploitation of blacks and Africans as unsuspecting guinea pigs by the pharmaceutical industry, and the hypocrisy of the Christian church-Reed's plays are a pungent antidote to the watered-down world of contemporary pop culture, where, Reed argues, minority voices remain as marginalized and stigmatized as they were a hundred years ago.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Also By
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- MOTHER HUBBARD
- CAST OF CHARACTERS
- ACT I
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- SCENE 5
- ACT II
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- SCENE 5
- SAVAGE WILDS
- CAST OF CHARACTERS, ACT ONE
- CAST OF CHARACTERS, ACT TWO
- ACT I
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- SCENE 5
- ACT II
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- HUBBA CITY
- CAST OF CHARACTERS
- ACT I
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- ACT II
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- SCENE 5
- THE PREACHER AND THE RAPPER
- CAST OF CHARACTERS
- ACT I
- SCENE 1
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- ACT II
- SCENE 1
- SCENE 2
- EPILOGUE
- THE C ABOVE C ABOVE HIGH C
- CAST OF CHARACTERS
- ACT I
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- ACT II
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- BODY PARTS
- CAST OF CHARACTERS
- ACT I
- ACT II
- SCENE 2
- SCENE 3
- SCENE 4
- SCENE 5
- SCENE 6
- SCENE 7
- SCENE 8
- SCENE 9
- About the Author
- Copyright
