The Life and Times of the African drummer/musician/teacher Babatunde Olatunji, who introduced the concept of polyrhythms to American music and influenced Santana and Max Roach.
The need for a sense of identity, the breaking of spirit and family relationships. Set in a mental hospital the play follows the disintegration and slow recovery of a young South African boot dancer who, after ten years alone in England suddenly suffers a mental breakdown. - Lyn Gardner, City limits
Morose, a junkie existing in a haunting world of beggar prophets and trapped women, frees himself from the slavery imposed upon him by the white man by killing his white father. Uses whiteface
Dread, a guard in a Lower East Side (New York) housing project, has had a dream of death. The play is a summoning of a defense, images from his past, events in his present-to justify his life.
Piesă despre viața eroului național jamaican Marcus Garvey. Prin intemediul mijloacelor multimedia și a muzicii este prezentată viața și activitatea politică a eroului în Jamaica, Marea Britanie, Statele Unite ale Americii și Canada.
Smintheus, a black bourgeois intellectual, while working on a massive sociological study entitled "The Contributions of the Negro Intellectual to American Society and His Resultant Impotence," avoids dealing with the more concrete problems of his life-his failing marriage, his black identity, his values, etc-until his only friend, Robert, dies in jail and Smintheus finally confronts reality and goes mad. Uses whiteface.
Bellysong and Pariah, whose age difference could make them father and son, are actually two black artists at different stages of development-experiencing, loving, and chiding the world and its maker for not giving them a break. Uses whiteface
'My Ex' tells the story of three, very different, married couples who all recently decided to buy a new house. The three houses they buy are in a cul-de-sac on an up market estate. A few weeks after they move in, one of the couples invites the others to a 'get-to-know-each-other' dinner party. Each individual person knows there is something special about the evening from the beginning, but as the conversations develop before and after dinner, they all end up getting to know more than they bargained for.