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HUBERT GRISSOM
(1942 - )Nationality: USA
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Hubert Grissom's new play Storm Surge will receive First Reading at abingdon New York City on December 8th 2008. SS is Grissom's fourth play, his first set in Florida and is inspired by the Hemingway legacy. It has not been produced but enjoyed staged reading in Sarasota and Key West in the July 2008. Grissom has had three civil rights plays produced: Bapbomb, renamed Code Bapbomb was co-produced in 2007 by Stageworks and Gorilla Theatres, Tampa, Florid; and Wedges and WaterinHole was produced the early 1990s by Terrific New Theatre Birmingham. Grissom was a student at Birmingham-Southern College during the Movement and has a law degree from Duke University. Grissom studied under writer-in-residence Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1977-1978. In July 2007, Grissom has been accepted to the Kennedy Center Playwright Intensive, advanced Track.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Bapbomb Jamelle: Alabama's Teenage First Lady Storm Surge, Key West Waterin' Hole WedgesBapbomb
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BapBomb was the code name for the Klan bombing of the church in 1963 that kill four African-American young ladies. the play exposes the deep origins of domestic hate crimes, prompting the critic for the Tampa Tribune to say it was 'startling, innovative and moving' where Tennessee Williams meets Spike Lee in a 'heady brew of the Southern Gothic.' Bapbomb has five characters and one set. the play is set in the law firm that overlooks historic Kelly Ingram Park, where in 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was met with violence by police dogs and fire hoses during a peaceful march, and the specter of King's moral victory in the face of humiliation haunt the play. the protagonist is the patriarch of a powerful and politically connected Birmingham law firm, a man tormented at his core by his own dishonesty, largely related to the fact that he is in possession of wiretap tapes proving that the FBI, the Birmingham newspaper, local law enforcement, and others knew of the Klan's plot to blow up the church and did nothing to stop it.
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Bapbomb, renamed Code Bapbomb, is set in 1988, in A law firm overlooking historic Kelly Ingram Park, where Dr. Martin Luther King lead school children in demonstrations in 1963 And Across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church where four African-American children were killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing Also in 1963. This play exposes Additional (un-prosecuted) criminals And the FBI, who knew of the bombing And did nothing to stop it.
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Civil Rights - Racial & Gay Discrimination Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Synopsis:
Jamelle: Alabama's Teenage First Lady relives decades of Alabama political history as viewed by its "Teenage First Lady": Big Jim Folsom's 1949 Christmas Message calling for racial equality; living in two Governor's Mansions with nine children; Big Jim's "Love Child"; the visit of African-American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56; the rise and fall of the Dixicrats and racist Governor George Wallace; Big Jim losing the 1962 Election; and Jamelle burying two of her sons. Jamelle takes place in November 2012 with Jamelle arcing from the vivacious, ebullient First Lady pretending to not have cancer to her death on November 30th 2012.
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There is one set and guitar player is non-speaking except for brief epilogue. Guitar player represents the Strawberry Pickers. . .folk/early country band popular in the 40s-50s of Southern politics.
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Top of PageStorm Surge, Key West
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Storm Surge is set in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 where the island and lower Keys have just survived a nine foot storm surge from Hurricane Wilma. In an effort to get the tourist to return the Festivals of Key West were/are rescheduled for December. Cuban defection and insanity treatment in Florida jails are secondary to the conflict of gender. . .the new frontier in human rights.
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aka Hidden Beach
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Gay and Lesbian Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: One non-speaking, either gender
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Top of PageWaterin' Hole
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Waterin'Hole is set in 1959 in alabama, during a violent railroad strike. the black and white workers, who are union members, drink together in the back room of a bar near the railroad in Birmingham, aL, in an era that many of the blue collar workers were members of the Ku Klux Klan. a strange plot to blow up a bridge finds a white mentor protecting an African-American protege, and unlikely twist on justice in the early Civil Rights era.
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Waterin'Hole is set in A back room of A bar in 1959 where black And white railroad workers drank After work during A violent railroad strike. It was A time when most blue collar in Alabama were Klan sympathizers, but this play shows inter-racial friendships And mutual respect. . .more Akin to the populist movement that some confused with communism.
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Terrific New Theatre
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archived auburn University, -
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Civil Rights Racial Justice Play/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: 1 off stage radio voice
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Top of PageWedges
Synopsis:
Wedges was based on an award winning short story by the playwright that looked at the racial justice and compassion among unlikely individuals. In Wedges a cook for the Governor of alabama, a populist and racial moderate, has in her possession diamonds that she 'stole' during a drunken brawl on the State yacht and lived with the 'wedges of her sin' for 20 years. there at two sets, a shot gun house and living room of retired Governor, with set change at intermission.
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Wedges (of Sin) is based on An Award winning short story, in which An African-American domestic for A progressive Governor of Alabama, confesses her sin of taking diamonds which do not belong. the play is based on the life of Governor Big Jim Folsom who called for racial justice As early As his Christmas message in 1949. the play is set in 1975 with two sets (a shot gun house And Governor living room) that Are changed At intermission.
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Terrific New Theatre
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archived auburn University, -
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Civil Rights Racial Justice Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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