ZAKIYYAH ALEXANDER
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Plays by Zakiyyah Alexander
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | A young woman obtains a job as a sex phone operator and gets mores than she bargained for. | |||||
10 Things To Do Before I Die |
| 1st Produced: | McGinn Cazale Theatre, NY | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | Second Stage Theatre | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Vida, a NYC high school teacher and Lena, a once-successful writer, are two sisters who couldn't be more different. When a delivery of boxes from their recently deceased father arrives they must reconnect and re-examine their complicated history. 10 Things To Do Before I Die is a drama infused with comedy that explores how we let go of yesterday so we can find a tomorrow - press release | |||||
After The Show: A Play in Mask |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 |
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| Synopsis: | An isolated Southern town. Time has stood still and there is still segregation of the races. Then a modern day minstrel show arrives. | |||||
Blurring Shine |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Real TheatreWorks | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy Drama, 100 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Does Hip-Hop still provide opportunities, or has it paralyzed the black consciousness? Luther, an African-American heavy weight, determined to propagate pop culture calls upon his brother Shine, America's most precious commodity. Told through raw confessions of the Hip-Hop canon, BLURRING SHINE asks us if the "black man" is simply a role, played when it is financial fortuitous, or is it more? | |||||
Elected |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A sixteen year old descends into the world of sex and drugs. But once you have been selling your body can you return to High School? | |||||
Etymology of Bird, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Game On |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0-9709046-8-3 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Notes: | written by Zakiyyah Alexander, Jon Spurney, Alice Tuan, Daryl Watson, Marisa Wegrzyn, Ken Weitzman. Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre | |||||
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Ghost |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Momentary Delay |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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One Smart Trick |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Prayala |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | Two brothers re-unite. One has become a hip-hop artist the other an economist | |||||
Present Company |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A middle aged man finds himself alone with a fifteen year old prostitute | |||||
Sick |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Sweet Maladies |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Two years after the abolition of slavery, three freed slaves wait for their mistress to die. To pass the time away they dress up in her clothes and play role games. | |||||