4 Books Published by Concord Theatricals on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Ohio State Murders explores the experiences of Suzanne Alexander, a fictional Black writer whose life both is, and is not, like her author's. When Suzanne enters Ohio State University in 1949, she has no idea what the supposed safe haven of academia holds in store. Years later, Suzanne returns to the university to talk about the violence in her writing. A dark mystery unravels.

Adrienne Kennedy's play is an intriguing, unusual, and chilling look at the destructiveness of racism in the U.S.

She Talks to Beethoven, written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, offers a layered discourse on politics, revolution, and loss. Set in Ghana, Suzanne waits in her room, listening to radio broadcasts about her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared, while she attempts to write about and communicate with composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Her world is infiltrated by snatches of Ghanaian string music, the revolutionary words of Frantz Fanon, and strains of Beethoven's…

Madame Bovary is the tragic yet scintillating story of a woman who longed for a life she could never fully achieve. Emma Bovary is a woman who desires the illustrious and romantic world she has only read about in books or observed from afar. As this desire grows, Emma must seek to fulfill it, whatever the cost, in an ultimate quest to become the Madame Bovary of her wildest and most passionate dreams.

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…