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  • Black

    by R. Hampton Simpson ...
    A series of missing persons in a large urban city prompts the police to hire an ex-cop, previously forced into early retirement, to look into the disappearance of the latest victim. Her investigation leads to a larger conspiracy whose impact has a deadly cost. ... Read more

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  • Sold into Slavery: The Story of Adaku, A Black Slave Woman Part I

    by Mary Devey ...
    The Story of Adaku is intended to show the terrible turmoil and injustice that was done to a young pregnant woman who was kidnapped against her will and then forced into slavery by the very people of her own land. Nestled in her little village in inland Africa, this young pregnant mother of two boys already had the hopes and dreams which any Igbo woman her age would want of her time. And her joy ... Read more

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  • Blood Knot and Other Plays

    by Athol Fugard ...
    Three plays that solidified Athol Fugard's indelible mark on theatre.The brothers of Blood Knot—one dark-skinned, one light—betray their dreams of a better future with the impossible wish of passing for white. In Hello and Goodbye, a poor white brother and sister churn through their once-promising past to comprehend their bleak present. Boseman and Lena, a black husband and wife, trudge through a ... Read more

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  • The Envious Life

    by Mary Dubose ...
    Thirty-five-year-old Diane Turner likes everything bigincluding her house and her men. A low-level employee at an insurance agency, Diane is wrapped up in her own fantasy world and believes the world revolves around her. She desires the finer things in life and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.Her husband, David, a tall, dark, and charming real estate agent, adores his wife. He will do ... Read more

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  • Unfinished Business

    by L.A. Jefferson ...
    Lydia couldn't have shocked folks more when she ended her relationship with the man everyone hoped she'd marry—until they discover why: Thomas Cunningham. After third breakup, Thomas returns to reclaim Lydia. Yet, Lydia has a different plan—a plan to finish this business she and Thomas started so many years ago. Her plan goes awry with an unexpected night of passion. As Lydia explores their ... Read more

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  • Dream of the Dog

    by Craig Higginson ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium. Patricia and Richard Wiley, an elderly white couple, are packing up to leave the farm they’ve sold to developers. Their preparations are interrupted by the arrival of a young man – ‘Look Smart’ – who used to be one of the black workers on their estate until he disappeared fifteen years ago. The day before Look Smart left, something ... Read more

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  • Acacia - Secrets of an African Painting

    by Paul Bondsfield ...
    All families have secrets, but some secrets are deadly. In this adventurous treasure hunt, two families' secrets collide across generations and continents.One family is from the Matabele people defending their very existence and the other from the colonial 'intruders' intent on domination of a wild land.Rumours of a great treasure of diamonds, buried deep in the African bush has swirled around the ... Read more

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  • Athol Fugard

    His Plays, People and Politics

    by Alan Shelley ...
    A playwright whose work is appreciated on a global scale, Athol Fugard's plays have done more to document and provide a cultural commentary on Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer in the last century.Using mostly migrant workers and township dwellers, and staging guerrilla-raid productions in black areas, Fugard frequently came into conflict with the government, forcing him to take his ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)

    by Athol Fugard ...
    Fugard's toughest and most moving political play. One of theatre's most affecting dissections of social upheaval.—Linda Winer, New York NewsdayGenerational conflict over the most effective means for ending Apartheid in South Africa leads to an explosive confrontation between a gifted but impatient Black township youth and his devoted but old-fashioned Black teacher in this deeply felt and richly ... Read more

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  • Blackberry Molasses

    by Jovial Smith ...
    The play Blackberry Molasses is an inspirational story about a young African American woman, Desera Harrison, who finds her voice through her writing. She struggles to find peace in her turbulent life. She begins building a life for herself in Atlanta, where she lives with her mother and fourteen- year-old twin sisters, Ebony and Traci. Shes also just reconnected with her alcoholic father, which ... Read more

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  • The World in an Orange

    Creating Theatre with Barney Simon

    by Irene Stephanou, Leila Henriques ...
    Barney Simon (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator ofthe Market Theatre in Johannesburg, one of the most influential and distinguished theatres in South Africa and the world. He workshopped, wrote, and directed unforgettable and pertinent plays in his quest to "hold a mirror up high to society." These works stand as a testament to South Africa’s recent history ... Read more

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  • Langbourne's Empire

    by Alan P Landau ...
    Series Book 3 - Langbourne Series
    Based on a true story. (Part 3 of the Langbourne Trilogy.)It is 1894 in the remote settlement of Bulawayo, in what later became Southern Rhodesia. Recent immigrants from Ireland, Morris and David Langbourne, throw body and soul into rebuilding their previously devastated business. Between Morris’ brilliant business acumen and David’s almost limitless energy, their future looks very promising, as ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD