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Sassy Mamas and Other Plays
Celeste Bedford Walker, one of the most accomplished contemporary playwrights in Texas, crafts dramas from history and...
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Celeste Bedford Walker, one of the most accomplished contemporary playwrights in Texas, crafts dramas from history and everyday life that illuminate the African American experience in all its variety, tragedy, pathos, and hilarity. Collected here are five of her most acclaimed plays: Sassy Mamas, Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed, Reunion in Bartersville, Distant Voices, and Camp Logan.
The topics treated by Walker are timelier than ever. Sassy Mamas follows "three women of substance and of a certain age who flip the script on gender stereotypes and become involved with younger men." Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed tells the powerful story of the horrific attack on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as the "Black Wall Street." In Reunion in Bartersville, described by Walker as "a comedy-mystery in two acts," the 50-year class reunion of Bartersville High School turns to hilarious suspense when an unexpected guest arrives. Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Distant Voices "resurrects" persons buried in College Memorial Park, the second-oldest African American cemetery in Houston, to celebrate the wisdom of those gone before. Camp Logan is based on real-life events in Houston in 1917, when members of the highly decorated 24th Infantry Regiment were subjected to brutal Jim Crow treatment, resulting in a riot that left dozens dead and the execution of seventeen African American soldiers for mutiny.
Readers and audiences should be prepared to laugh out loud, to be challenged, to be disturbed, and above all, to be enlightened by this poignant collection of plays.
Author: Celeste Bedford Walker
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781648431210
About the Author
CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER is arguably one of our finest contemporary playwrights: a finalist in the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for outstanding work by a female playwright; winner of a Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award; winner of the National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award; and a finalist in the 38th Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. In 2022, Walker was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The topics treated by Walker are timelier than ever. Sassy Mamas follows "three women of substance and of a certain age who flip the script on gender stereotypes and become involved with younger men." Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed tells the powerful story of the horrific attack on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as the "Black Wall Street." In Reunion in Bartersville, described by Walker as "a comedy-mystery in two acts," the 50-year class reunion of Bartersville High School turns to hilarious suspense when an unexpected guest arrives. Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Distant Voices "resurrects" persons buried in College Memorial Park, the second-oldest African American cemetery in Houston, to celebrate the wisdom of those gone before. Camp Logan is based on real-life events in Houston in 1917, when members of the highly decorated 24th Infantry Regiment were subjected to brutal Jim Crow treatment, resulting in a riot that left dozens dead and the execution of seventeen African American soldiers for mutiny.
Readers and audiences should be prepared to laugh out loud, to be challenged, to be disturbed, and above all, to be enlightened by this poignant collection of plays.
Author: Celeste Bedford Walker
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781648431210
About the Author
CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER is arguably one of our finest contemporary playwrights: a finalist in the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for outstanding work by a female playwright; winner of a Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award; winner of the National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award; and a finalist in the 38th Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. In 2022, Walker was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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