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Eugene B Redmond

EUGENE B REDMOND  

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 9 Poets with the Blues         Face of the Deep, The         Kwanza: A Ritual in 7 Movements         Night John Henry Was Born, The         Ode to Taylor Jones         River of Bones         Shadows before the Mirror         There's a Wiretap in My Soup or Quit Bugging Me         Will I Still Be Here Tomorrow?

9 Poets with the Blues

Synopsis:
Adaptation from the poetry of Edward Brathwaite. Aims at displaying the oral and gestural rudiments of tradition and current black expression; an act of tapping the reservoir of black musicography and mysticism

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Musical/Verse Ritual

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Face of the Deep, The

Synopsis:
Adaptations of works by several black poets: Margaret Walker, Owen Dodson, Henry Dumas-and blues singers. A play-ritual about forces and mystical strengths and powers: a praise-ballet of black endurance including speculation on the origins and habitats of spirits, deities, myths

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Southern University, Baton Rouge,    1971

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Genre:
Mythic Choral Drama

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Kwanza: A Ritual in 7 Movements

Synopsis:
A verse-play that extends from the concept and practice of Kwanza, an African holiday ("First Fruits") observance. The seven movements are choralized poems, one from each of the seven principles of Nguzo Saba; the setting, however, is one of African-American origin

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California State University, Sacra-mento    1971

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Genre:
Choral Ritual

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  7 B M & F

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Night John Henry Was Born, The

Synopsis:
Adapta-tions of many poets' works, with choral interludes. A celebration of the great black cultural folk hero, John Henry, along with a salute to the endurance and struggles of Blacks; a poetic tapestry of black history and thought; the mythic "tablets" of Africans in America

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Southern University, Baton Rouge, La    1972

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Genre:
Historical Choral Ritual

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 WM, chorus, musicians, drummer

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Ode to Taylor Jones

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written with Katherine Dunham

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River of Bones

Synopsis:
This adaptation from the works of black poets, but mostly the author's own works, represents a program of black ritual-istic rudiments. Centered around the drum as concept, instrument-voice, and repository of ancestral wisdom, the play relies heavily on audience participation and ideas associated with birth, death, puberty, love, age, and initiation

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Genre:
Historical Verse Ritual

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 M dancer-singer, I F dancer, 2 drummers, chorus

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Shadows before the Mirror

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-    1965

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There's a Wiretap in My Soup or Quit Bugging Me

Synopsis:
Satirizes the Watergate situation via a mock celebration of Independence Day. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Sigmund Ereud, Nixon, and Franz Eannon, black psychiatrist and author, are all alluded to or mentioned. Cast: saxophone player, drummer, chorus

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Miller's PArk, Sacramento, Cal    1974

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Genre:
Morality Satire One Act

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Will I Still Be Here Tomorrow?

Synopsis:
A eulogistic meditation on the December 3, 1972, shooting of fifteen-year-old Raymond Brewer in Sacra-mento. The eulogy has been generalized to deal with global expression-the dead youth speaks from the grave about his potentialities and possibilities: "I am tomorrow, but they killed me today."

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Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York, May 1975

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Genre:
Ritual One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 BM, 4 BF, drummer, chorus

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