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Carolyn Nur Wistrand

CAROLYN NUR WISTRAND  

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Carolyn Nur Wistrand is the artistic director of the Africana Performance Troupe in The Dept. of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint, where she lectures in Contemporary Black Theatre, the Black Arts Movement, the Harlem Renaissance and African World Performance Traditions. She is also the playwright in residence for the Beecher Community School District advocating historical consciousness in drama. The author of numerous plays which address spiritual, racial, and feminine themes, her works have been performed in Hawaii, California, Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and New York City. She holds a Masters degree in African American Theatre from Texas Southern University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont.

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below is a list of Carolyn Nur Wistrand's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Before the Spanish Came         Ida B 'n the Lynching Tree         Mean Molly         Second Coming

Before the Spanish Came

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Contemporary Drama Service, Boulder Colorado, 1995   -

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Ida B 'n the Lynching Tree

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Ida B. 'n the Lynching Tree is based on the foremost African American female journalist of the 19th century, Miss Ida B. Wells. A founding member of the NAACP, Ida B. Wells was characterized as courageous, fearless, and militant. The play moves swiftly through major events in the life of Miss Ida B. Wells, from her birth on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to the Memphis lynchings of March 9, 1892, which resulted in her lifelong crusade against lynching and inequities, brought about by Jim Crow laws in the Deep South. This historic play is suitable for English, drama, and history classes. An excellent supplemental reference, Ida B. 'n the Lynching Tree brings 19th century race relations in the United States to life for students. C. Nur Wistrand was awarded a "Confronting Racism Grant" (2000) from the Mott Foundation to research and write the script for high school students as a vehicle to reflect and dialogue on historical issues relating to racism.

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The Dept. of Africana Studies, The University of Michigan-Flint    2000

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Mean Molly

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When Watah Mocasin goes fishing in a slave burial ground, the spirit of Mean Molly, a young West African woman that died in Massah George's smokehouse, is unleashed upon the newly freed men and women in the low country of South Carolina during the first year of Reconstruction. Guided by the Ijebu warrior, Obonto, the people work collectively to return her trust to the Ancestor House.

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Randal Coates Auditorium, Beecher high School, Flint, MI    1999

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Second Coming

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Second Coming is a single-act character study in racism that spans 150 years. All of the action takes place in the parlor of a once grand, but now faded, South Carolinian plantation home belonging to the Welsh family. The four characters are Welsh women, but with decidedly different points of view on the nature of their heritage. Through them an examination of racist attitudes in the South is dramatized for the stage

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Nat Horne Theatre, New York City    1992

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