subURBAN Stories
Product Code: SM8000
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2m., 4w.
Limited Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
- 80 min.
Full Length Plays
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The Gentleman From Indiana
Product Code: G82000
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11m., 4w., 2 children. May be expanded.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
- 150 min.
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The Bluest Eye
Product Code: BC4000
- Drama
- College | Community | Professional
- 2 to 3m., 6 to 10w.
- 90 min.
In this story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio, 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved by her family and schoolmates. Instead, she faces constant ridicule and abuse. She blames her dark skin and prays for blue eyes, sure that love will follow. This powerful adaptation explores the crippling toll that a legacy of racism has taken on a community, a family and an innocent girl. Learn More -
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The Face of Emmett Till
Product Code: F93000
- Drama | Tragedy
- High School | College | Community | Professional
- 7m., 3w. (Male characters can be 7 to 9. Doubling possible.)
- 135 min.
The Face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Miss., in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for "allegedly" whistling at a local white woman. The ramifications of this act are still being felt today. As retold for the first time within a creative, nonfictional genre by Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and Mamie’s heroic crusade for justice.
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Daisy in the Dreamtime
Product Code: D89000
- Drama
- College | Community | Professional
- 3m., 3w.
- 85 min.
Spiritual quest of Daisy Bates, an Irish Learn More -
Free Man of Color
Product Code: F89000
- Drama
- College | Community | Professional
- 2m., 1w. (One male character should be white, one African-American. Female character is white.)
- 120 min.
The year is 1824. Ohio is a free state but slavery is still the law of the land. Rev. Robert Wilson, president of Ohio University, brings John Newton Templeton, a young ex-slave, to the University to be the first man of color to attend the college. Learn More -
From the Mississippi Delta
Product Code: F86000
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3w. (Each of the three women will play multiple roles.)
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
- 120 min.
On her 11th birthday, Phelia's childhood is brutally stolen from her by a white man. Not even her mother can protect her from white people, nor remove the sickening taste of shame. Phelia plots a series of escapes. After the rape, she attempts to join a minstrel show as an exotic dancer, astounding the male audience with her "special" skill, but the plan is quickly thwarted. At the age of 12, Phelia is a prostitute and a thief. At 14 she has quit school and spent time in jail, and by 16, she is an unwed mother. Then Phelia is swept into the momentum of the civil rights movement. Amazingly, she is encouraged and supported by a community of civil rights workers, friends and her "street family" to attend college. Learn More -
