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Warren Burdine II

WARREN BURDINE II

  
Nationality:    African American
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Warren Burdine II's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Warren Burdine II's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Aka Deadwood Dick         Down Thru the Chimney         Jake Jackson's Revolution         Jitterbug Champagne         Night Class At Harlem U, A         Snowbound

Aka Deadwood Dick

Synopsis:
This afro-Western odyssey with music is a passage-to-manhood rite that seceral tribes in West Africa practice. it has been Americanised and set in the mythical west. the protagonist, nat "Deadwood Dick" Love, makes a symbolic journey in search of his manhhod.

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1st Produced:
Dillard University, New Orleans    Dec 1976

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Genre:
Ritual full length

Parts:
Male:  15-20            Female:  5            Other:  musicians

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Down Thru the Chimney

Synopsis:
Fantasy about what would happen if two blck cops arrested Santa Claus for breaking and entering.

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1st Produced:
-    c. 1970

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Genre:
Fantasy one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BM (1 in whiteface)

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Jake Jackson's Revolution

Synopsis:
an adaptation of Richard Wright's novel, Lawd Today, set in Chicago in 1937. a day in the life of a young black postal worker and a look at the social and emotional factors that keep him running on a never-ending treadmill of apathy and the possibility of his redemption

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1st Produced:
-    1974

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Genre:
3 act Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9BM, 4 BF, 2 WM, 1 WF extras

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Jitterbug Champagne

Synopsis:
Set in a small drugstore-restaurant general store in rural east Tennessee in the summer of 1967. Deals with ignorance and naivete of people with preconceived notions about others and the games and rituals blacks must act out to survive

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Genre:
1 act tragi comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BM, 2 WM, 1 WF, 1 afro-Latin

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Night Class At Harlem U, A

Synopsis:
the hopes, frustrations, and fears of sundry characters in inner city communities

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1st Produced:
Humanist Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio    Jun 1974

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Genre:
2 act play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  8 BM, 6 BF, 1 BB, 1 WM

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Snowbound

Synopsis:
Set in the 1800s. a group of Blacks who have plotted to revolt against their masters are trapped by a blizzard in a plantation house

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Genre:
3 act historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 2 BF, 1 WM, 1 WF, offstage voice

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