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Vinie Burrows

VINIE BURROWS

  (1928 - )
Nationality:    African American
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Frustrated by the quality and quantity of roles for the actor of color, Vinie Burrows has created and produced a repertoire of eight one-woman shows. With over six thousand performances, she has developed a strong following; touring Holland, Germany, Denmark, Rumania, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Algeria, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Japan, and -- more recently -- Russia.

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

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

         Africa Fire!         Child Is Born, A         Dark Fire         Daughters of the Sun         Echoes Of Africa         Female Of the Species, The         From Swords To Plowshares         Rose McClendon: Black On the Great White way         Shout Freedom         Sister! Sister!         Song Of Lawino         Walk Together Children
Africa Fire!

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Wrapped in colorful African dress and authentic jewelry, this superb actress magically re-tells traditional folktales, legends, and myths. Interludes of movement, song and audience participation create an unforgettable experience for audiences of children and adults and scholars.

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Child Is Born, A

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This solo show had its premiere at the United Nations for their International Year of the Child. (1986). In turn, humorous, tender, and dramatic, this collage evokes memories of infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

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Dark Fire

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Daughters of the Sun

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Dramatic vignettes of women from Africa, the Caribbean, South Pacific, England, and Australia. With searing, bold, traditional and mother tongue language, Vinie Burrows, who has been dubbed the "Queen of Black theatre" stirs up moods, feelings, atmosphere and vibrations of women from Africa and the Diaspora.

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Echoes Of Africa

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Female Of the Species, The

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From Swords To Plowshares

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Rose McClendon: Black On the Great White way

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resurrects the legendary actress, Rose McClendon. Rose McClendon was the premier African-American actress of the Harlem Renaissance; yet, there are no biographies, books or plays, and few, if any, scholarly dissertations about her. McClendon was compared, in her heyday, to the renowned Italian actress Eleonora Duse, and often referred to as the "'sepia' Barrymore." But, she had been lost in the annals of theatre history until Vinie told the story.

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Shout Freedom

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Sister! Sister!

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A celebration of the joys and labors of women of all ages, backgrounds, and religions in villages and cities world-wide. From Soweto to Appalachia, this solo theatre piece is a stunning mosaic of testimonies and narratives of and about women. - written by men and women.

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Martha's Vineyard, Mass., July 1975

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Song Of Lawino

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A lyrical, impassioned, yet slyly satiric lament of an African village woman, who berates her university-educated husband for recklessly renouncing all the customs and traditions of his people. A master percussionist along wiht a multi media visual environment transports the audience to a traditional African village.

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by the Ugandan poet, OKOT p'BITEK.

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Walk Together Children

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Hailed as a classic in Black theatre, this chronicle of the African-American experience uses the poetry, prose, and the songs of Black writers to tell the epic story of raw survival after the auction block and to present day struggles and triumphs of Afro-descendant peoples in the United States.

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Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York     1968

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