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Oliver Pitcher

OLIVER PITCHER  

 Nationality:    African American
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below is a list of Oliver Pitcher's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bite, The         Daisy, The         Meaning of Strings, The         One, The

Bite, The

Synopsis:
'Bishop Ozel W. Johnson, a figure reminiscent of Reverend Ike, awards a clock radio to the sister who has made the largest contribution toward his trip to the Holy Land-Townsend Brewster, News-letter of the Harlem Cultural Council, vol. 2, no. 11. Beware of shows that come with an exclamation mark. they are either advertising their shock value or compensating for some inbuilt deficiency. While Nadim Sawalha's 60-minute monologue about Mohammed Al Fayed's battle for a British passport is intermittently funny, it neither tells you much about the supposed exclusiveness of the British Establishment nor about the plight of immigrants in general. Sawalha's show rests on two jokes, to which the law of diminishing returns applies. One depends on Al Fayed's attempt to integrate himself into British life, which yields one good line when he claims: "Last night I was having a pint with the Archbishop of Canterbury." By the time he is buttonholing the Duke of Edinburgh, however, the joke has worn thin. the other running gag concerns Al Fayed's misuse of the English language, on the lines of "That's the way the cuckoo crumbles." But there is something deeply condescending about this harping on his gaffes. " the Guardian

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1st Produced:
-    1970

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1st Published:
Atlanta University Center Sampler, ed. by Oliver Pitcher, Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1970   -

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 3 BF

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Daisy, The

Synopsis:
A play utilizing avant-garde techniques to convey a symbolic night's journey-dream, the underworld, and the past-of-a-man seek-ing the source and essence of his existence

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Genre:
Mythic Drama

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

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Meaning of Strings, The

Synopsis:
the metaphor that all the world's a stage is carried by two female actresses-one black and the other white-both trying to figure out who pulls the strings

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BF, 1 WF, 1 M

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One, The

Synopsis:
A single character becomes several characters in transi-tion

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1st Produced:
NEC Workshop, New York    1971

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1st Published:
Black Drama Anthology, ed. by Woodie King, Jr. and Ron Milner, New York: New Amer. Lib, 1972   -

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Genre:
Ritual One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BM

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