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Milburn Davis

MILBURN DAVIS

  (1937 - )
Nationality:    USA
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         $100,000 Nigger, The, Or You Can Take the Nigger Out Of the Country But         Black Rage In Suburbia         Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls         Galivantin' Husband         Love Song         More Power To the Grape         Nightmare         Playing the Game         Precious         Rain Dance, The         Sometimes A Switchblade Helps         Sporting Times
$100,000 Nigger, The, Or You Can Take the Nigger Out Of the Country But

Synopsis:
Jake, an extremely funny, dim-witted, superstitious black man from alabama, inherits $100,000, and Louis, his Harlem-born slickster cousin, egged on by his girlfriend, Dianne, hires Madam Zee Zee, a phony Harlem medium, to help Louis fleece Jake out of his windfall."

Notes:
(Or if original title is deemed offensive) "the $100,000 Jackass". with Willie Jones As Jake

1st Produced:
Reading Nlt, New York, 1970. Nec, NY     1973

Organisations:
Spelman College

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4BM, 2 BF

Further Reference:
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Black Rage In Suburbia

Synopsis:
Victor ("Vic") Jackson, Harlem ex-con and building superintendent, and his younger brother, Ted, carry out Vic's plan to rip off his girlfriend's employer, David and esther Gelman, a wealthy lawyer and his school-teacher wife, who reside in Great Neck, L.I. the heist is born after emily Brown, Vic's girlfriend and the Gelman's sleep-in maid, makes an innocent disclosure, overheard by Vic and Ted and Ted's new girlfriend, Mary Lou Hudson, the sleep-in maid that emily introduced to Ted. Life on the weekends is a blast for the two couples as they party and enjoy sex in the basement apartment, visited also by albert Barrow, a West Indian tenant newly-arrived from the Bahamas and Rose Wiley, a numbers player who lives on the fifth floor.

Notes:
with Jamil Malek As Vic Jackson, Stinius Simuel As Ted Jackson, Barbara McCloud As emily Brown, Ricki Lee Hagen As Mr. Gelman And Elizabeth Jarvis As Mrs. Gelman

1st Produced:
Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" Series Produced Atlanta, Ga    

Organisations:
New Day Productions Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full Length adventure Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 4 BFM, 1 WM, 1 WF

Further Reference:
-

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Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls

Synopsis:
Duke, a slithery-tongued Harlem pimp, connives to lure Betty Dawson, a pretty, but confused high school drop-out, into his stable, provoking the wrath of her single dad, Bill Dawson, who's engaged to Ruth Simmons, his next-door neighbor, who later helps her fiance fire barbs at Duke, who, uninvited, brazenly brings his prostitutes to dinner, unaware that Bill is crafting a devious plan that doesn't prevent the wine-loving building superintendent, Mr. Green, from hanging around to sip wine and ogle the pretty girls.

Notes:
aka Precious. with Jamil Malek As Duke, Carmen Jones As Betty Dawson And Joe Kelly As Bill Dawson

1st Produced:
Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" Series Produced Atlanta, Ga    

Organisations:
New Day Productions Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full Length adventure Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BM, 5 BFM

Further Reference:
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Galivantin' Husband

Synopsis:
Melvin Spencer of Harlem, an unfaithful husband, invites tragedy after abandoning argumentative wife, Hattie and infant son, Little Melvin. He's partly miffed because Hattie told him that if each domestic chore carried a price tag he could not afford her services. He later meets Lillian, the crazed, gun-toting Other Woman, at the Cozy Inn bar in Harlem.

Notes:
with Taurean Blacque And Joyce Walker

1st Produced:
N.E.C. Repertory, St. Marks Theatre, Greenwich Village, New York City     1973

Organisations:
Negro ensemble Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two act Domestic adventure

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 2 BF

Further Reference:
-

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Love Song

Synopsis:
Singer is interrupted by heckler (actor) who demands the vocalist sing the truth (hate) instead of love, but the singer contunues to sing love.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Skit for Street theatre Sketch

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM 2 BF

Further Reference:
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More Power To the Grape

Synopsis:
there is humorous interaction between two black couples in New York City - Kwame Odidi-Okidi, the Greenwich Village husband, smitten with bitterness and excessive black consciousness, and housewife, Pat; Ben Thomas, the Harlem husband, a corporate manager, who wants to become a father, in spite of working wife, Cheryl's opposition.

Notes:
with Bill Nunn As Ben Thomas

1st Produced:
Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" Pilot Show Produced Atlanta, Ga     1985

Organisations:
New Day Productions Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Domestic Comedy (TV) One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 2 BF

Further Reference:
-

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Nightmare

Synopsis:
the courier of truth appears to a black man in his dreams and turns the brother onto Blackness and how he must relate to it in his life.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tragi-Fantasy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BM 3 BF extra

Further Reference:
-

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Playing the Game

Synopsis:
Ben and Cheryl Thomas fly in from New York City to spend weekend at Pat and Kwame Odidi-Okidi's apartment in east Point, Ga. Ben and Cheryl visit Greenbriar Mall, discover Southern hospitality is more myth than fact, then return to apartment, where they socialize and focus on a medley of topics, including Cheryl's new baby, Cassandra, Kwame's disappointment with his mailroom job, the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and the obvious role that most African-Americans play in the System as low achieving jobholders satisfied with mediocre work and mediocre pay. Calling himself a "pawn in another man's game," Kwame's remark tied in with the title of the show and justified the frequent playing of the background song, "the Games People Play".

Notes:
with Jamil Malek, Suzanne Randall And Bernadette Hudson

1st Produced:
Channel 12, "Love Tales Theatre" Series Produced Atlanta, Ga     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Domestic Comedy (TV) One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 4 BFM

Further Reference:
-

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Precious

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
see Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Rain Dance, The

Synopsis:
Ben and Cheryl fly in from New York City to visit Pat and Kwame Odidi-Okidi's at their digs in the Pinetree Deluxe apartments in Atlanta, Ga. the couples dance to Oran "Juice" Jones' recording of "the Rain" and alternate between being somber and serious when they savor a smorgasbord of subjects that include Chery's long-awaited pregnancy, the devastating impact of drugs, welfare, money eclipsing moral and spiritual values, female inequality in the workplace, the Odidi-Okidi's son, akbar playing violin, and the growing rift between black men and black women.

Notes:
with Jamil Malek, Suzanne Randall, James L. Scott And Rhonda Smith

1st Produced:
First Walker Theatre, Black Arts Festival, Produced Atlanta, Ga     1992

Organisations:
New Day Productions Company/Walker art Gallery, co-producers

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Domestic Comedy (TV) One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 2 BF, Five-year-old Female

Further Reference:
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Sometimes A Switchblade Helps

Synopsis:
Jamil Massoud, an afro-wearing new employee at Many Products, Corp., joins a table in the company cafeteria where Brian Greenly, a white merchandising manager and ellen Johnson, a black secretary, are having lunch. a heated argument ensues between the blonde-wig wearing ellen, who continually evidences a shallow and hollow mentality and Jamil, who minces no words in flaunting his racial pride. aware that Brian is making a move on ellen, he flips when she makes a disparaging remark about afro hairstyles. Outraged by her self-hate and fired up by his pent-up rage, Massoud whips out a switchblade knife and sends other Diners scattering before snatching ellen's wig from her head, after which Brian flees, mouthing threats and ellen finds herself, creating magic with an afro pick, a metamorphosis that is both funny and delightful to observe.

Notes:
with George Miles As director And Starletta DuPois As ellen Johnson

1st Produced:
Nly Workshop, Harlem, New York     1970

Organisations:
New Lafayette Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Farcical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1BM, 2 BF, 1 WM

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Sporting Times

Synopsis:
a prostitute induces a young dude from Harlem to become her pimp, after which he goes about composing scatological ghetto rhymes in a search for joints.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Reading Nec Workshop, NY     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 BM 2 BF 1 WF

Further Reference:
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