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No. 6 / by TJ Young.
Van Pelt Library PS3625.O97332 N6 2017
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, T. J. (Thornton J.), author.
- Series:
- Samuel French acting edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dinosaurs.
- Riots.
- Police-community relations.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Asperger's syndrome--Patients.
- Cincinnati (Ohio)--Drama.
- Cincinnati (Ohio).
- Ohio--Cincinnati.
- African American families--Drama.
- African American families.
- Police--Drama.
- Police.
- Asperger's syndrome--Patients--Drama.
- Asperger's syndrome.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Drama.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Police-community relations--Drama.
- Race relations--Drama.
- Race relations.
- Riots--Drama.
- Dinosaurs--Drama.
- Genre:
- Domestic drama.
- Problem plays.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Samuel French acting edition.
- Other Title:
- Number 6
- Number six
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Samuel French, [2017]
- Summary:
- "In 2001, the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of the police put the city of Cincinnati on edge, resulting in a five-day riot that set the citizens of the city agains the police force. During the third day of the riots, the Anderson family, in a small apartment above their family-owned dry cleaners, prepare for dinner and the citywide curfew. Ella, the mother of the family, realizes her son, Felix, isn't home. Felix' twin sister, Felicia, who is obsessed with dinosaurs, reveals he has gone to find the family food for the night. Felix returns with provisions and a knocked-out white man, Kelly. As the riots grow and move closer to the small apartment and business, we discover why Felix and Felicia have not left home, the truth that Kelly has been keeping to himself, and Felicia's theory of what will cause extinction number six."--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award, 2017
- Play.
- "Drama / 2m, 2f"--Page 4 of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780573706493
- 0573706492
- OCLC:
- 1019731944
- Publisher Number:
- 99976722273
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