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Jackie Alexander

JACKIE ALEXANDER  

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

 Birthright         Brothers From The Bottom         Desire, The         High Priestess Of Dark Alley, The         Legend Of Buster Neal, The         Right Reverend Dupree In Exile, The

Birthright

Synopsis:
takes place in a suburb of New Orleans, a year after Hurricane Katrina, and concerns two families living there.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Billie Holiday Theatre, NY    2008

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Brothers From The Bottom

Synopsis:
This new play follows two brothers in post-Katrina New Orleans, faced with an impending building project that will transform their neighborhood. The action explores all sides of the fraught gentrification issuea clear parallel to The Billie Holiday Theatre's own Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, currently in the throes of a changing demographic and the much-debated atlantic Yards project.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Billie Holiday Theatre
1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216    28 Oct 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Desire, The

Synopsis:
Four days after Hurricane Katrina rips through the Gulf Coast, Willie Jenkins, a storm survivor, seeks refuge at the summer home of his cousin, Ty, in East Hampton, New York. Having grown up together in the Desire Projects, a drug- and crime-ridden housing development now buried beneath ten feet of water in New Orleans' ninth ward, the two men's lives have taken drastically different paths. Ty is a confident professional with all the trappings of success, while Willie's life resembles the bleak world of his childhood. Despite these differences, Ty reluctantly takes Willie into his home. The reunion proves hilarious and heartbreaking, as both men, each running from a past they fear will forever define them, struggle to find redemption
Press release

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Organisations:
The Billie Holiday Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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High Priestess Of Dark Alley, The

Synopsis:
Set in present-day New Orleans, The High Priestess of Dark alley is the story of three creole women, Celeste Thibedeaux and her two grown daughters, Claire and Janee Charbonet. Trapped by the conventions of intra-racial divisions within the African American community, the sisters are pitted against their mother regarding issues of color, class, sexuality and generational differences.
- press release

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1st Produced:
Billie Holiday Theatre, NY    2009

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Legend Of Buster Neal, The

Synopsis:
Written for Black History Month, The Legend of Buster Neal is the story of five generations of African American men and their challenges. a powerful drama dealing with legacy, family, and how manhood is defined, the new play carries forward the Billie Holiday Theatre's mission of presenting work relevant to African American audiences and the Brooklyn community. The play opens with a flashback to the civil rights era, when Buster Neal is faced with a life-or-death confrontation that becomes a local legend. Flashing forward to present day, his 17-year-old great-great-grandson Marcus is dealing with modern urban issuesdrugs, peer pressure, a broken familywhile his father and grandfather disagree on the best way to raise him. When a bad decision creates consequences that Marcus can't handle, Buster Neal arrives as a mysterious visitor to give his descendants a second chance.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Billie Holiday Theatre
1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216    04 Mar 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Right Reverend Dupree In Exile, The

Synopsis:
a lifelong man of faith, Reverend Charles Dupree is being pressured to give up the church he built as he fights a crippling terminal illness. During a self-imposed exile to his lakehouse in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, he and his devoted wife Miriam are briefly reunited with their sons after years of estrangement: Kenny, a professional basketball player, and Brendan, home to introduce his fiancee Olu, a practicing Muslim whose engagement to Brendan, a Christian, has caused her to be disowned from her own father. as each of them is forced to deal with the escalating decline in Dupree's health, they gain strength in their ability to face their own challenges.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Billie Holiday Theatre
1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216    12 May 2011

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1st Published:
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Music:
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To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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