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Ujamaa OyamO

UJAMAA OYAMO

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    African American
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OyamO (aka. Charles F. Gordon) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and writer-in-residence at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His plays have been performed in theatres across the country, including the Yale Repertory Theatre; the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Working Theatre, the Public Theater, Negro Ensemble Company, Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, New Federal Theatre, Frederick Douglas Creative Arts Center, BACA, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Triplex Theatre, all of New York City; Penumbra Theatre of St. Paul, MN; Karamu House Theatre in Cleveland, OH; Shelby Community Players at Shelby State Community College in Memphis, TN; Crossroads Theatre and the George Street Playhouse of New Brunswick, NJ; Arena Stage (three Helen Hayes Award nominations) and the Kennedy Center in D.C.; the Wexner Center of Columbus; Theatre of the First Amendment at George Mason University; Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and Eureka Theatres in San Francisco; the Goodman Theater of Chicago; the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference in 1972, '73, '74 and '98; Theatre Emory in Atlanta; National Theatre Institute in Montreal; Theatre du Horla in Avignon, France; the Meadowbrook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan; the Fountain Theatre in L.A.; the St. Louis Black Repertory Co., and at numerous American universities. For HBO, Charles wrote an episode for the Famous Black American Anthology and a TV adaptation of I Am a Man. Mr. Gordon has received fellowships from the Berrilla Kerr, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and McKnight Foundations, as well as grants from the Ohio and N.Y. State Arts Councils and three NEA fellowships. He received his M.F.A. in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is a member of PEN, Dramatists Guild, New Dramatists (alumni), the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Writers Guild East, the O'Neill Playwrights Center, and the Black Theatre Network. He won the 1999 Eric Kocher Playwrights Award for The White Black Man (Mundele Ndombe) at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference of 1998. He was awarded a PEW/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Fellowship for the year 2000 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. He is a site monitor for the NEA and vice president of the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group. He lives in the Twin Cities.

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         Advantage Of Dope, The         Angels In the Men's Room         Bambam and the Uncivil War         Barbarians, The         Beethoven Comes To Harlem         Boundless Grace         Breakout, The         Called Ur Fear         Chump Changes         Chumpanzees         City In A Strait         Crazy Niggas         Evening Of Living Colours, An         Everymoment         Famous Orpheus         Fried Chicken And Invisibility         Fuck Money         Geronimo Jones: An American Folktale         His First Step In the Corner         Hopeful Interview With Satan, A         I am a Man         I Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem         In Living Colors         Juice Problem, The         Kindest Of the Finest         Last Party, The         Let Me Live         Lovers, The         Mary Goldstein And the Author         Negroes, The         Never Look A Word In the Face         Nine As One         Old Black Joe         One Third Of A Nation         Outta Site         Pink And Say         Place Of the Spirit Dance, The         Ravishing Moose, The         Resurrection Of Lady Lester, The         Return Of the Been-To         Revelation, The         Sanctuary         Sing Jubilee         Singing Joy         Sorcerer's Apprentice         Stalwarts, The         Star Is Born Again, A         Store, The         Surveyors, The         Temple Of Youth, The         Terror Eyes         Thieves, The         Unemployment         Upcrusted         When Our Spirit Awakens, Then Black theatre Opens         White Black Man, The         Willie Bignigga

Advantage Of Dope, The

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also As sreenplay

1st Produced:
Buffalo,NY     1971

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Two Act Drama

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Angels In the Men's Room

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New York     1992

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Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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Bambam and the Uncivil War

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Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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Barbarians, The

Synopsis:
A play on the real barbarians of this society, and their ultimate submission to their source of power as that power is transferred to the hands of others

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1st Produced:
Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York, Dec. 1975     1975

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Genre:
Ritual

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Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  9 males (4 black, 5 white), 3 females (1 black, 2 white).

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Beethoven Comes To Harlem

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Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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Boundless Grace

Synopsis:
Grace, a young spirited girl, longs to see her father again, and dreams that he is an African prince. Out of the blue, Grace gets a letter from her father, Tariq, with two roundtrip tickets to Gambia, West Africa. Grace and her Nana go out to visit Tariq and his new family, but things dont go as well as Grace imagined. She is sad that her father is not the African prince she envisioned, and is disappointed that he has started another family. In the end, Grace learns to love her family in Africa, and learns that family is what you make it.

Notes:
Music by Michael keck; playwright Ujama OyamO; author Mary Hoffman

1st Produced:
Seattle Children's Theatre     1997

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http://playsforyoungaudiences.org/scripts/boundless-grace   -

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Genre:
Childrens musical 90 min

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  ensemble

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Breakout, The

Synopsis:
Killer of Malcolm X receives special treatment in jail as other black prisoners must look after themselves. A play full of humor that shows, among other things, that we are all in prison and can 'break out" if we simply move instead of theorizing and procrastinating

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in "Black Drama: An Anthology" Ron Milner, New York: New Amer. Lib, 1972   -

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Genre:
Protest Morality Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  13 BM, 1 BF; revised to 8 BM, 1 BF, 2 WM

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Called Ur Fear

Synopsis:
A play about the black experience

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1st Produced:
-     1974

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Genre:
comedy satire One Act

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Chump Changes

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM

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Chumpanzees

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1st Produced:
New York     1970

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Genre:
Street Ritual

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  7 BM, 1 BF

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City In A Strait

Synopsis:
about the civil rights movement in Detroit

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1st Produced:
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit     2007

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Crazy Niggas

Synopsis:
A play showing who the real niggers (and other folks) are

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Genre:
3 Acts Play/Drama

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Male:  13            Female:  8            Other:  13 males (10 black, 3 white), 8 females (7 black, 1 white).

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Evening Of Living Colours, An

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music by Olu Dara

1st Produced:
Trenton, Nj     1988

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Everymoment

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San Francisco     1986

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Famous Orpheus

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New Brunswick, Nj     1991

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Fried Chicken And Invisibility

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New York     1988

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Fuck Money

Synopsis:
Guerilla Tactics

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1st Produced:
-     1969

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Geronimo Jones: An American Folktale

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His First Step In the Corner

Synopsis:
Based on contradictions

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1st Produced:
Nec Workshop, New York     1971

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1st Published:
the New Lafayette Theatre Presents, ed. by Ed Bullins, New York: Anchor Books, 1974   -

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Genre:
Satire

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 1 BF

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Hopeful Interview With Satan, A

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Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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I am a Man

Synopsis:
based on the events surrounding the strike in 1968 by Memphis sanitation workers that immediately preceded the assassination of Martin Luther King

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - November, 1993
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (April 1, 2000)   -

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I Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem

Synopsis:
about the civil rights movement in Detroit

Notes:
commision by University of Chicago's Court theatre. Adaptation of novel by Maryse Conde

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Genre:
adaptation

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In Living Colors

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Written by Olu Dara; Oyamo and Dianne McIntyre

1st Produced:
Theater Space At George Mason University, Faifax, Va     1992

Organisations:
Theater of the First Ammendment

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Juice Problem, The

Synopsis:
An erotic love "chartune" about doing whatever is necessary to survive and "get over" (succeed)

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Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Martinique theatre, New York, Jan. 1975

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Genre:
3 Acts Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 5 BF

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Kindest Of the Finest

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Quota time and paddy wagon pickup time for New York's "finest" on 119th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  14 BM, 3 BF, 4 WM

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Last Party, The

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New York     1970

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Genre:
Street Ritual

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Let Me Live

Synopsis:
set in a Georgia prison in 1932 and examines the injustice of the African-American experience as reflecte in the lives of eight inmates

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New York     1991

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Lovers, The

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New York     1970

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Genre:
Street Ritual

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Mary Goldstein And the Author

Synopsis:
A black wife and her mother discuss black women's changing social roles with music and dancing

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New York     1979

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Third World Press, Chicago, 1989   -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Negroes, The

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1st Produced:
New York     1970

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in "Black Troupe Magazine", 1, 2, 1970   -

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Genre:
Street Ritual

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Never Look A Word In the Face

Synopsis:
the male psyche encounters the She in a "continuing level of consciousness."

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Genre:
Surrealistic Mythic One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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Nine As One

Synopsis:
the various levels and universality of oppression and how it is dealt with

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Genre:
Play/Screenp!ay

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BM, 1 WM, 1 WF

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Old Black Joe

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San Francisco     1984

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One Third Of A Nation

Synopsis:
One-Third of a Nation is the story of the quest of "the Little Man" - a clownish everyman - who simply wants a decent place to live for a reasonable rent. When he stumbles onto the stage, he becomes a part of a fantastical Drama that begins with a devestating tenement house fire, and journeys through 250 years of New York real estate, depicted in 19 fast-paced scenes in the Living Newspaper's signature style: by turns comic and tragic, derived from thoroughly researched historical record, and always full of distinctly theatrical life. He meets landlords, street toughs, renting agents, and senators, and each teaches him something more about the world he has always lived in but never understood

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Original Playwright - Arthur Arent. Play debuted in 1938 At part of the WPA's Living Newspaper series.

1st Produced:
Fairfax, Vir     1991

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Outta Site

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1st Produced:
New York     1970

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1st Published:
in "Black Troupe Magazine", 1, 4, 1970   -

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Street Ritual

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Pink And Say

Synopsis:
about a white boy and a black boy during the Civil war

Notes:
from a chidren's book by Patricia Polacco

1st Produced:
Seattle Children's Theatre     1996

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Childrens musical 90 min

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Place Of the Spirit Dance, The

Synopsis:
-

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-

1st Produced:
New Haven, C'Cut     1980

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Ravishing Moose, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Written for the National theatre of the Deaf.

1st Produced:
-     1972

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-

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Resurrection Of Lady Lester, The

Synopsis:
based on the life of jazz saxophonist Lester Young.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Yale Repertory, Ct     1981

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-

1st Published:
in "Plays USA 1", Theatre Communications Group, 1981   -

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-

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biographical drama

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Return Of the Been-To

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-

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1st Produced:
New York     1988

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-

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Revelation, The

Synopsis:
-

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1st Produced:
-     1970

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-   -

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Ritual

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Sanctuary

Synopsis:
-

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-

1st Produced:
New York     1992

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-   -

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Sketches Sketch

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Sing Jubilee

Synopsis:
about Fisk University's Jubilee Singers

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit     2008

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-   -

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-

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Singing Joy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1988

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-

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-   -

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-

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Sorcerer's Apprentice

Synopsis:
Young, hungry, and on his own, Charles finds himself in a mystical wood with talking plants and animals-the prickly Jeremy Groundhog, Southern belle Ms. Orange Tree, the grounded Mr. Juniper Bush, and more. Catching a glimpse of Marguerite, the queen of the forest, he is astounded as she makes everyday objects sail through the air, work in the garden, and seem to come alive. He has never seen a sorcerer before! Charles eagerly seeks to become her apprentice, but his arrogance, disrespect, and gullibility have him quickly run through the three chances that Marguerite granted him. After the third incident, the sorcerers trust in Charles is gone. In his desperation, he turns to Big John King, a flimflam artist, to convince Marguerite to take him back. Now things look bleak for Marguerite, but Charles comes to his mentors aid, fending off Johns giant and sinister minions in a spectacular battle. For his loyalty and bravery, Marguerite gives him another chance. He has finally learned to listen to others and is truly ready to be the sorcerers apprentice.

Notes:
Music by Carmen Moore; lyrics and book by Ujama OyamO

1st Produced:
Seattle Children's Theatre     01 Dec 2006

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-

1st Published:
http://playsforyoungaudiences.org/scripts/the-sorcerers-apprentice   -

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-

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Childrens musical

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Stalwarts, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1988

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-

1st Published:
Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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-

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-

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Star Is Born Again, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Adapted from the story the Star That Could Not Play, by the same playwright

1st Produced:
African-American Theatre Center, Buffalo, NY     1978

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-

1st Published:
Privately published, 1974
Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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-

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Children's Play Youth Audience

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Store, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1969

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-

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-   -

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Guerilla tactics

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Surveyors, The

Synopsis:
-

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-

1st Produced:
-     1969

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-   -

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Guerilla tactics

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Temple Of Youth, The

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-

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-

1st Produced:
New York     1987

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-   -

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Childrens Youth Audience

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Terror Eyes

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center, New York     2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Alexander Street Press 2003   -

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Thieves, The

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Black Arts / West, Seattle     1970

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-   -

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Morality

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Unemployment

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1969

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-

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Guerilla tactics

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Upcrusted

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1969

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-

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Guerilla tactics

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When Our Spirit Awakens, Then Black theatre Opens

Synopsis:
A play that asks when black theatre is going to discover what it really is

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1969

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-

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-   -

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-

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4 Act Play/Drama

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White Black Man, The

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-

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-

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Willie Bignigga

Synopsis:
Shows that no matter what a "nigga" has got or has gotten to, he is still a "nigga."

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Henry Street Settlement House, New York     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dramatika", 3, 1, 1970   -

Music:
-

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Street Ritual/Comedy One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, children

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