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Shay Youngblood

SHAY YOUNGBLOOD

  
Nationality:    USA
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Shay Youngblood's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Shay Youngblood's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Amazing Grace         Communism Killed My Dog         Flying Blind         Shakin' the Mess Outa Misery         Square Blues         Talking Bones         there Are Many Houses in My Tribe

Amazing Grace

Synopsis:
Grace has a vivid imagination and she brings to life stories that she has read or been told by her grandmother. At school she is told that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is a girl and she is black

Notes:
Based on the book "Amazing Grace" by Mary Hoffman

1st Produced:
-     1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
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Communism Killed My Dog

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flying Blind

Flying Blind
Floral is seventy nine and dreams of driving across America. She is sitting in her ancient Buick waiting for her son to an assisted housing. Sixteen year old Cherry approaches and asks for a ride

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013   978-1482354201

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shakin' the Mess Outa Misery

Synopsis:
the coming of age of a black girl who when her mother died has been raised by a group of women. A beauty shop owner, a woman who had married an African man to get back to her roots, a bootlegger, the town seer and her grandmother

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Square Blues

Square Blues
Three generations of a Black-American family stand up for their beliefs

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013   978-1482332940

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Talking Bones

Synopsis:
Three generations of women hear voices - the voices of their ancestors who advise them

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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there Are Many Houses in My Tribe

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Gay and Lesbian Plays Today edited by Terry Helbing. Published by Heinemann,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act 10 minutes. - - Lesbian, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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