Funnyhouse of a Negro

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Imprint: Concord Theatricals (Feb 01, 2011)
Fiction, Paperback, 28 pages
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 9780573621666

    Description of Funnyhouse of a Negro

    Drama

    Characters: 3 male, 5 female

    Set: Drop & Wing

    A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg, Queen Victoria, Patrice Lumumba, and Jesus Christ. Only she and Lumumba are not dressed in white; she has a white fixation and wants to become whiter and whiter. She harangues against her father, who gave her a jungle strain and then sold out to white harlotry, dreams of returning to Africa to save the continent, and hang…

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