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Roger Furman

ROGER FURMAN  (1924? - 1983)

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Roger Furman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Another Shade Of Harlem         Fat Tuesday Or Drawers Down, Bottoms Up         Fool's Paradise         Gimmick, The         Hip, Black, And Angry         Long Black Block, The         Quiet Laughter, The         Renegade Theatre         Three Shades Of Harlem         To Kill A Devil

Another Shade Of Harlem

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1st Produced:
Public School I. S. 201, New York    1970

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Fat Tuesday Or Drawers Down, Bottoms Up

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The action takes place in New Orleans in the "dirty" 1 930s, in a run-down brothel, where the girls are a bit too brassy and the house madam on the wrong side of forty has a much too young "loverboy." Flashes into the past life of a Puerto Rican junki

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written with Dee Robinson

1st Produced:
NHT, New York    1975

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Musical Comedy Musical

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Fool's Paradise

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One act

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Gimmick, The

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This play should unfold as a dream, possibly a nightmare. The people in this play are all fugitives of a kind and outcasts from so-called "proper" society

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1st Produced:
Columbia University School of the arts, New York    1970

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Genre:
Fantasy One act

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Hip, Black, And Angry

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Directed And conceived by Mr. Furman, written by Jim Williams, Nathaniel Juni, Warren Cuney, Tad Joans, Carl Boissiere, Frances E. K. Parks et Al

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Public School I. S. 201, New York    1967

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Genre:
Variety Program

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Long Black Block, The

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a black woman superintendent of a ghetto apartment house survives junkies and crime and stillfinds beauty.

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NHT, New York    1972

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Play/Drama

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Quiet Laughter, The

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Renegade Theatre

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1st Produced:
Purple Manor, New York    1968

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Three Shades Of Harlem

Synopsis:
Life in Harlem shown in three moods: Shade One-the Blues; Shade Two-Joy; Shade Three-Hope for the Future.

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written with Doris Brunson

1st Produced:
NHT, New York    1965

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Genre:
Three act Play/Drama

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To Kill A Devil

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an Oedipal relationship is explored in which an un­married mother searches for a man and confronts her son with being in her way

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1st Produced:
Columbia University School of the arts, New York    1970

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Black Scenes, ed. by alice Childress, Doubleday, New York:, 1971   -

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Genre:
Drama One act

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