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Includes the full text of ten plays, including A Soldier's Play, Home, and The River Niger. This book is a must."
~Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

Click to buy this book nowClassic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company
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Paul Carter Harrison (Editor) Gus Edwards (Editor)

Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 594pp.
ISBN: 0822955601
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date: August  1995

This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro Ensemble Company's significant contribution to American theater. Collected here are ten plays most representative of the eclectic nature of the Negro Ensemble Company repertoire.
Contains

Foreword 

A Soldier's Play - 1 

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men - 55 

Home - 119 

The Sty of the Blind Pig - 175 

Daughters of the Mock - 229 

The Offering - 263 

The First Breeze of Summer - 301 

Dream on Monkey Mountain - 375 

The River Niger - 433 

The Great MacDaddy - 509 

In Conversation - 589 

An Afterword - [s.n.] 

 










 


 

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