Product Description: This is a wide-ranging selection by theatre director Yvonne BrewsterBoy with Beer by Paul Boakye is a funny and sexy story of a Guardian-reading gay photographer who finds his fantasy "African Prince" - "Boakye's writing is brash and exceedingly fresh…Boy with Beer has cutting edge" (Independent); A Jamaican Airman Foresees his Death by Fred D'Aguiar takes Yeats's famous poem and twists it into a rhapsody from a colonial perspective in WW2 Scotland - "A tough, warm and thrillingly individual play full of live-wire humour and athletic assurance…The writing is reckless but controlled, the humour dark, ribald and dangerous…simply bursts with that fiery energy of which true theatre is made" (John Peter, Sunday Times)...read more

William Branch, playwright and American Book Award winner, has compiled this collection of plays by contemporary Black dramatists from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the United States. Though widely varied in themes, styles, and objectives, these plays proceed from an Afrocentric wellspring, expressing viewpoints and sentiments largely through the eyes of people of African origin or descent. The anthology contains "Death and the King's Horseman", by Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, 1986 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature; "Edufa", by Efua Sutherland, Ghana's leading dramatist; "Woza Albert!" by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon, three of South Africa's most successful theater-makers; "Pantomime", by Derek Walcott, 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature; "Sortilege II: Zumbi Returns", by Abdias do Nascimento, founder of the Afro-Brazilian movement; "Slave Ship", by Amiri Baraka, mentor of the 1960s Black Arts movement; "In Splendid Error", by William B. Branch, Emmy Award nominee; "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", by August Wilson, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; and "The Talented Tenth", by Richard Wesley, AUDELCO recipient.

Product Description: This is a collection of six extraordinary plays, all of which experiment with form, subject matter, and genre in order to comment on the modern black experience in terms of culture, politics, and performance. It includes: B is for Black, Moj of the Antarctic, The Sons of Charlie Paora, Brown Girl in the Ring, Something Dark, and 35 Cents...read more

Product Description: Book by Harrison, Paul Carter