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LENNOX BROWN
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Trinidadian
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Ballet Behind The Bridge, A
Ballet In A Bear Pit, A
Basement, The
Becoming Persons
Blood Promises Of A Shopping Plaza
Blues Smile, The
Burning Sky, The
Captive, The
Clean Sweep, A
Communion In Dark Sun, A
Conversion, The
Devil Mas'
Fog Drifts In The Spring
Gold Coast Of Times Square, The
Governor's House, The
Home Is A Long Way
I Have To Call My Father
Jour Ouvert
Journey Tonight, The
Last Dance In The Sun, A
Meeting, The
Moon In The Mirror
Night Class, The
Night Sun
Philosophy Of A Fast Half-Back, The
Processional From La Basse
Prodigal In Black Stone
Sisterhood Of A Spring Night, The
Song Of The Spear
Summer Screen
Sunday
Team, The
This Scent Of Incense
Three Colours Of A Dream Quartet
Throne In An Autumn Room, The
Trinity Of Four
Twilight Dinner, The
Wine In Winter
Winter Is Coming
Winti Train, The
Ballet Behind The Bridge, A
Synopsis:
in the British colonial tropics before in-dependence, a widowed mother has to sacrifice one son in order to send the other to Oxford University
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CBC Radio Toronto, 1969
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St. Mark's Playhouse, Off Broadway, NY 1972
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Negro Ensemble Company
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Ballet In A Bear Pit, A
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a contemporary tragi-comedy set in North America. Selwyn, a twenty-eight. year old Caribbean immigrant and university drop-out, tries to make himself a success according to White Protestant ethics. a forest of obstacles grows in his path. He marries a domestic from the Caribbean, but becomes romantically involved with two white women. His wife, meanwhile has started to smell success for her own life. Both Selwyn and his wife climb to the pinnacle of North American success, but at a terrible price to themselves and their marriage.
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Basement, The
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Becoming Persons
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Blood Promises Of A Shopping Plaza
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a surrealist killing on a shopping plaza by a White teenager who thinks he's Black
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Blues Smile, The
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a former black American radical has carved an international reputation for himself in the Third World. He returns to the U.S., Is pardoned by Washington, and appointed to head an important office In New York. He falls In love and marries the daughter of an upper class black family. His job places him in charge of black Ivy League graduates. Their upper-class background threatens him. He unknowingly slights one of these graduates, who devises a terrible plan for his downfall. Character and environment ignite
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Burning Sky, The
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Captive, The
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about a White Southerner captured by a group of Black radicals.
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Museum Theatre, Toronto 1965
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Clean Sweep, A
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about work in a multi-racial society in the West Indies. Whites, Chinese, Blacks, East Indians. Summer Screen
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TriNIDAd and Tobago TV 1976
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Communion In Dark Sun, A
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Conversion, The
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Devil Mas'
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Carnival takes on a sinister meaning for a White priest and two Blacks in Trinidad.
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Karamu House Theatre, Cleveland, OH 1976
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Kuntu Drama, edited by P.C. Harrison, Grove Press Inc, NY, -
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Fog Drifts In The Spring
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a contemporary tragicomedy dealing with the black experience set in Paris. a black American sailor, haunted by an irrational sense of guilt resulting from a childhood incident, meets a Caribbean taxi driver. The sailor is apparently doomed to sail the seas forever. He is compelled to tell his story to strangers with a strange obsession. The taxi driver is in Paris for his personal pleasure Only - the symbolic journey into whiteness by blacks born outside of Africa. a new meaning of black Identity emerges from the meeting, although it is tragic.
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IRT Theatre, New York 1976
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The Twilight Dinner and Other Plays, Talon Books, Canada, -
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Gold Coast Of Times Square, The
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Governor's House, The
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Home Is A Long Way
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an immigrant fights for success in a white society in Canada.
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TriNIDAd & Tobago TV 1974
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I Have To Call My Father
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Drama and Theatre, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1969-70, State University of New York at Fredonia (also entitled:) Jour Ouvert: in catalogue*, -
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Jour Ouvert
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a very sensitive young Black man meets a highly neurotic White woman on New Year's Eve
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Winner Canadian One-act Playwriting Competition 1969
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in Drama and Theatre', Fredonia State University, New York, -
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Journey Tonight, The
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Last Dance In The Sun, A
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a group of successful West Indians return to an island that is supposedly "independent" after an absence of years.
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TriNIDAd and Tobago Television 1975
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Meeting, The
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a husband seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife
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Moon In The Mirror
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Night Class, The
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Night Sun
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Philosophy Of A Fast Half-Back, The
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Processional From La Basse
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Prodigal In Black Stone
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a West Indian returns to his home for his father's funeral. He has broken a death promise to his mother, who awaits him.
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Sisterhood Of A Spring Night, The
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about a group of young Black women living in Canada, without Black men
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Queens College Theatre, NY 1974
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Song Of The Spear
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an African from Ghana, born with a guilt about slavery, visits North America for the first time, and forms a friendship with a Black West Indian. a White woman destroys them.
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CBC Radio 1972, Radio 610, Trinidad, 1973
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TriNIDAd Theatre Workshop -
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Summer Screen
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about a beautiful but insecure Black woman, driven to jealousy against her husband.
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Prism International, Winter 1980, Vol. 19, 2, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5, Canada, 1980 -
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Sunday
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Team, The
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This Scent Of Incense
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Three Colours Of A Dream Quartet
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Throne In An Autumn Room, The
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about reality and illusion facing a married couple and a friend, Black immigrants in Toronto
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CBC Radio 1972, Radio 610, 1972
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Keskidee Theatre, London 1979
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Trinity Of Four
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about psychological existentialism and a Black slave during an uprising in 1700 in the West Indies
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Twilight Dinner, The
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St. Mark's Playhouse, Off Broadway, NY 1978
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Wine In Winter
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Winter Is Coming
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Winti Train, The
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a symbolic train journey taken across America by a group of Black strangers
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University of Hartford, CT 1974
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