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Joseph A Walker

JOSEPH A WALKER

  (1935 - 2003)
Nationality:    African American
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Joseph A Walker's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Joseph A Walker's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Antigone Africanus         Believers, The         District Line         Harangues, The         King Buddy Bolden         Lion Is a Soul Brother, The         Ododo         Out of the Ashes         River Niger, The         theme of the Black Struggle         Tribal Harangue One         Tribal Harangue Three         Tribal Harangue Two         Yin Yang

Antigone Africanus

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1st Produced:
New York    1975

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Believers, The

Synopsis:
Action takes place in the "Gone Years" and the "then and Now Years." Subtitled: the Black Experience in Song.

Notes:
written by Joseph A Walker And Josephine Jackson, Music And lyrics by Benjamin Carter And Others

1st Produced:
Garrick Theatre, New York    1968

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1st Published:
Best Plays of 1967-68, ed. by Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., New York: Dodd,    -

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  7 BM, 6 BF

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District Line

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1st Produced:
New York    1984

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Harangues, The

Synopsis:
Action takes place on Avenue B on New York's Lower East Side. the last of four plays in a production called the Harangues

Notes:
aka Tribal Harangue Two

1st Produced:
NEC, New York    1970

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1st Published:
in "the Best Short Plays 1971", Chilton, Philadelphia, 1971   -

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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

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King Buddy Bolden

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Music by Tony Booker And Dorothy A Dinroe-Walker; lyrics And book by Joseph A Walker

1st Produced:
-    1996

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Genre:
Musical

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Lion Is a Soul Brother, The

Synopsis:
Set in an African village, a medicine man tells the story of a lion who talked and was a friend to man

Notes:
Music by Dorothy Dinroe

1st Produced:
Demi-Gods, New York    1976

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Genre:
Jazz-Rock Musical

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Ododo

Synopsis:
A conjurer conjures up the spirits of the orig-inal black people and traces the black man's history from his beginnings in Africa to the present

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1st Produced:
NEC, New York    1970

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

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Genre:
Historical Ritual

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  11 B M & F

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Out of the Ashes

Synopsis:
In two parts (the Legacy and the Vow). An en-semble piece that mixes old minstrel and modern scenes with actors that metamorphose from role to role until central character, Joe, can save his pop from death and alcohol. Subtitled: A Minstrel Show

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1st Produced:
-    1974

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Genre:
Satire

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River Niger, The

River Niger, The
A son returns home to his father, not quite the hero the Father anticipated nor the staunch militant his former buddies once knew. the Father becomes the hero

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1st Produced:
NEC, New York    1972

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1st Published:
Hill and Wang, New York, 1973   -

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Genre:
Domestic MeloDrama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 BM, 4 BF

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theme of the Black Struggle

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1st Produced:
NEC, New York    1970

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Tribal Harangue One

Synopsis:
the action takes place in an African dungeon on the coast of West Africa in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. One of four plays in a production called the Harangues

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1st Produced:
NEC, New York    1970

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Genre:
Historical Mythic One Act

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

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Tribal Harangue Three

Synopsis:
Action takes place in the future. One of four plays in a production called the Harangues

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1st Produced:
NEC, New York    1970

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Genre:
Mythic One Act

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

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Tribal Harangue Two

Synopsis:
A black revolutionary's plot to kill the rich white stepFather of his lover is foiled by the white man's control of money. One of four plays in a production called the Harangues

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1st Produced:
-    1969

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1st Published:
the Best Short Plays, 1971, ed. by Stanley Rich-ards, New York: Chilton, 1971   -

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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

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Yin Yang

Synopsis:
. A potpourri of black thought forms, projected through poetry, Drama, dance, and music

Notes:
Music by Dorothy D. Walker

1st Produced:
Afro-American Studio, New York    1972

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Genre:
Ritual

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 BM, 6 BF

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