An anthology of African American plays features Ed Bullins's The Taking of Miss Jane, George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum, and August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Original.

Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama

Literature & Fiction

August Wilson

Steve Carter

Amiri Baraka

George C. Wolfe

P. J. Gibson

Alexander Smmons

Ed Bullins

Leslie, Lee

Dramas & Plays

Signet

this collection contains two full-length plays: DAME LORRAINE, HOUSE OF SHADOWS, a long one-act: ONE LAST LOOK and two short pieces: MIRAGE and TEA ON INAUGURATION DAY. DAME LORRAINE: Picton and Dorcas...ancient now...came to this country with an internal, eternal love that made them blind to the fact that the darker aspects of the elusive Dame Lorraine found homes in the hearts of their eight sons. Their first-born and only surviving male child comes home today after twenty-seven years in prison. Picton and Dorcas await him, thinking perhaps they should never have come here. Perhaps they never should have fallen in love. DAME LORRAINE was originally produced by the Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago. 2 M, 3 F. HOUSE OF SHADOWS: Two baby-faced, would-be criminals decide to rob the home of two women of advanced age who live in contention with their past, their present, their future, and each other. The brats get more than they've bargained for...including possible great futures behind bars in Joliet. HOUSE OF SHADOWS was originally produced by the Negro Ensemble, New York. 2 M, 2 F, plus 2 boys.

Plays by Steve Carter

Broadway Play Pub

Set "well in the past" on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer. "Victory Gardens Theater did not simply present a world premiere of a new play on Thursday night. It conjured a new life for a myth that is more than 2,000 years old. And it did so with such stunning and completely realized theatricality that it seemed as if all the talent involved in the project has suddenly ripened and burst apart. The play is called PECONG. And although at first its Caribbean island setting seems far from the ancient Greece as a globe will permit, it turns out to be not just one of the most astonishingly powerful retellings of the Medea story, but one of the most faithful. In moving this classic tale of sexual possession and bloody revenge to another continent, playwright Steve Carter has rediscovered its meaning. Sex and power are the focus of PECONG, and the struggles come in all varieties. At the center there is the battle between man and woman in the ferocious relationship of Mediyah (the Medea character), the sorceress, and Jason Allcock, the shallow womanizer whom she falls madly in love with and cedes all her power to, only to be crassly dumped. Hell hath no fury like this woman scorned. But there are also wars among women, between brother and sister, between those of light and dark skin tones and, of course, among men. (In the Carnival scene a 'pecong,' or verbal battle of insults hurled in rhymed verse, is played out in great style by Mediyah's brother, dressed as a rooster, and her lover, dressed as a ram.) PECONG is Carter's most ambitious and beautifully written play to date full of humor, passion, high drama and low comedy." Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

Pecong

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

Born in Weymouth, Mass., and a lifelong resident of the greater Boston area, Steve Carter is a jazz guitarist and writer. Intermodulations is Carter's first full-length book of poetry. The poems capture the interplay between music, art, and literature, and are rich with glimpses of city life. The City of Boston has a large presence in many of these poems, appearing almost as a character itself. As the author describes it in"Fishing in Florida": This morning I flew out of Boston, where poems are still immanent in the late afternoon air Deeply personal, crossing back and forth between the familiar and the transcendental, these subtle yet expansive poems will quietly shift your perspective on the world.

Intermodulations

Maat Publishing

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Books by Steve Carter