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Vincent Terrell

VINCENT TERRELL

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

         13th Day after Christmas         Another Man Called William         Apollo 19         Caskets, The         Evening With William Wells Brown, An         From these Shores or Good Olde Crispus         Genuine Minstrel Show, A         God's a Faggot (A Biblical Confession)         Miss Phillis         Right, Reverend Nat Turner         Sarge         Several Barrels of Trash         Shoot-out at St Rafael County Courthouse         Shuttle USA         Sunday the Preacher Did Not Show Up, The         Trotter         Trotter Debates         Trotter Woman         Us         We Fought Too!         Will It Be Like This Tomorrow         Yours for the Cause

13th Day after Christmas

Synopsis:
Details the daily routine of an urban sniper and the mission he undertakes

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Genre:
Protest Political Drama One Act

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Another Man Called William

Synopsis:
Concerns the dedicated determination of William Monroe Trotter and members of the Boston Equal Rights League in their attempts to voice nine important questions about the questionable leader-ship of Booker T. Washington while he spoke at the Roxbury church meet-ing. That meeting subsequently turned into a riot that led to the arrest of Trotter and others

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1975   

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, narrator

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Apollo 19

Synopsis:
Interplanetary space Drama that depicts the interactions of two as-tronauts during a special space flight.

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1970   

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Genre:
One Act

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Caskets, The

Synopsis:
Concerns three slain civil rights activists, MEdgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1969   

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Genre:
Mythic Ritual/Drama One Act

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

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Evening With William Wells Brown, An

Synopsis:
A play about William Wells Brown's escape from the evils of slavery, and his travels and wit as a free man and race spokesman

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1974   

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BM

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From these Shores or Good Olde Crispus

Synopsis:
A play about the martyr Crispus Attucks, black freedom fighter of the Boston Massacre, the first to give his life for freedom.

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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

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Genuine Minstrel Show, A

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Genre:
Historical Musical Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  15 BM, 5 BF, 5 WM, 2 WF

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God's a Faggot (A Biblical Confession)

Synopsis:
Designed to show contradictions of the Holy Bible, this play concerns the damnation of man's soul as determined by conflicting cultural and spiritual values

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Genre:
Morality Ritual/Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 4 WF

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Miss Phillis

Synopsis:
A play that shows black American poet Phillis Wheatley's (1753?-1784) youthful literary development during Boston's colonial times

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BM, 1 BF, 2 WM, 3 WF

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Right, Reverend Nat Turner

Synopsis:
the life and times of black free-dom fighter Reverend Nat Turner, great minister and leader of the Virginia Slave Rebellion

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1974   

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BM

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Sarge

Synopsis:
the tribulations of a young black combat soldier who defects to the Vietnamese forces and who is later captured and sentenced to life in prison

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 BM, 1 BB, 2 BF, 1 WM

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Several Barrels of Trash

Synopsis:
Play depicts a contemporary life situation of trash and garbage collectors faced with a questionable dilEmma after finding a large sum of money

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Genre:
Domestic Morality Drama One Act

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Shoot-out at St Rafael County Courthouse

Synopsis:
About fearless commitment of a younger brother to plan and implement the escape of his incarcerated brother.

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Genre:
Protest Political Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  5 BM, 4 WM, 1 WF

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Shuttle USA

Synopsis:
Revolutionary-mission oriented play that es-pouses radical solutions for problems facing America

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1970   

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Genre:
Political Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 BM, 1 BF, 1 WF, dancer

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Sunday the Preacher Did Not Show Up, The

Synopsis:
Depicts a human situation of what happened when mysteriously, throughout the land, the black preachers failed to show up at their Sunday services

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1975   

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Genre:
Morality Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BF, 1 WF

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Trotter

Synopsis:
Relates the tragic last days and hours of William Monroe Trotter's life

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1972   

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Genre:
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Trotter Debates

Synopsis:
Depicts William Monroe Trotter's famous White House en-counter with President Woodrow Wilson on race issues

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1973   

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 BM, 6 BF, 2 WM, 2 WF, narrator

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Trotter Woman

Synopsis:
Depicts William Monroe Trotter (journalist, human rights activist, and editor) in the early years of his marriage to his beloved and completely dedicated wife, Geraldine Louise Pindell Trotter

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Genre:
One Act

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Us

Synopsis:
Play espouses radical solutions for the problems of black and white Americans

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1971   

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Genre:
Political Drama One Act

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

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We Fought Too!

Synopsis:
About the early black revolutionary heroes Peter Salem and Salem Poor and the role they played in the Battle of Bunker and Creed's Hill

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1975   

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Genre:
Historical Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10 BM, 4 WM

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Will It Be Like This Tomorrow

Synopsis:
A play about the physical transforma-tion of the president of the U.S. and the effect it has on his presidency

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Boston: Solar Pr, 1972   

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Yours for the Cause

Synopsis:
Written and dedicated to the late, great William Monroe Trotter, 1872-1934, journalist, human rights activist, and editor of the now defunct Boston Guardian newspaper

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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