Includes the full text of ten plays, including A Soldier's Play, Home, and The River Niger. This book is a must."
~Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company
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Paul Carter Harrison (Editor) Gus Edwards (Editor)

Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 594pp.
ISBN: 0822955601
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date: August  1995

This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro Ensemble Company's significant contribution to American theater. Collected here are ten plays most representative of the eclectic nature of the Negro Ensemble Company repertoire.

Contains Foreword  A Soldier's Play - 1  Ceremonies in Dark Old Men - 55  Home - 119  The Sty of the Blind Pig - 175  Daughters of the Mock - 229  The Offering - 263  The First Breeze of Summer - 301  Dream on Monkey Mountain - 375  The River Niger - 433  The Great MacDaddy - 509  In Conversation - 589  An Afterword - [s.n.]