25 plays from the Fire This Time Festival : a decade of recognition, resistance, resilience, rebirth, and black theater / edited by Kelley Nicole Girod.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Girod, Kelley Nicole, editor.
• Class of 1894 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American drama--21st century.
• African Americans--Drama.
• African Americans--Social conditions--Drama.
• American drama--African American authors.
• African Americans.
• American drama.

Genre:

• Drama.

Physical Description:

viii, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Twenty-five plays from the Fire This Time Festival

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.

Summary:

"25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater reflects this fantastic legacy, containing 25 ten-minute plays originally produced by the eponymous festival. Together, these pieces bookend the Black experience in the US from 2009 to the present day: from the hope for further progress and equity under the Obama administration, to the existential threat faced by Black people under the Trump presidency." -- From publisher's description.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: I. A History of The Fire This Time Festival
• II. Foreword: The Privilege of Identity and Why I Founded The Fire This Time Festival
• III. Play Sections
• Section 1
• Vanna White, Brooke Shields, and Beyonce: Beauty Standards and Self-Acceptance in Black America. Foreword / Jocelyn Bioh
• Play #1 The Beyonce Effect / Katori Hall
• Play #2 Citizen Jane / Derek Lee McPhatter
• Play #3 Vanna White Has Got to Die! / Antoinette Nwandu
• Play #4 Hard Palate / Roger Q. Mason
• Section 2
• The Cost of Education: Confronting the Effects of Racial Disparity in America's Education System. Foreword / Cynthia G. Robinson
• Play #5 Third Grade / Dominique Morisseau
• Play #6 Poor Posturing / Tracey Conyer Lee
• Play #7 Scholarship babies / Francisco Da Silveira
• Section 3
• The Shots Heard Round the World: Policing Black Bodies in White America. Foreword / Nia Witherspoon
• Play #8 The Fucking World and Everything in It / C.A. Johnson
• Play #9 Black, White, & Blue / William Watkins
• Play #10 Ain't No Mo' / Jordan E. Cooper
• Play #11 Assumed Positions / Natyna Bean
• Section 4
• Birth: Contemplating the Next Generation in a Complicated System. Foreword / Stacey Rose
• Play #12 Within Untainted Wombs (an excerpt) / Dennis A. Allen
• Play #13 Antepartum / Deneen Reynolds-Knott
• Section 5
• Maintaining Roots: Addressing Gentrification in Historically Black Neighborhoods. Foreword / Michelle Tyrene Johnson
• Play #14 Just Another Saturday in the Park / Bernard Tarver
• Play #15 Panopticon / Cyrus Aaron
• Section 6
• The Black Family: How We Thrive in the Face of Oppression. Foreword / Ngozi Anyanwu
• Play #16 Exodus / Camille Darby
• Play #17 The Sporting Life of Icarus Jones / Marcus Gardley
• Play # 18 The House / Charly Evon Simpson
• Play #19 Sisterhood in the Time of the Apocalypse / Kendra Augustin
• Play #20 C.O.G.s / Samantha Godfrey
• Section 7
• 158. Black Love: Why We Hope. Foreword / Julienne Hairston
• Play #21 The Weatherin' / Jonathan Payne
• Play #22 Slow Gin Fits / Angelica Cheri
• Play #23 Love and Happiness: Ada's Story / Fredrica Bailey
• Play #24 Gravity / Josh Wilder
• Play #25 Maya and Rivers / Tyler English-Beckwith
• IV. The Fire This Time Creative Team.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1894 Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

• 9781350268111
• 1350268119
• 9781350268104
• 1350268100

OCLC:

1289275890

Publisher Number:

99990481752

Online:

The Class of 1894 Fund Home Page