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Stage Plays by
Wendell Edward Carter
These Plays are available for stage productions.
Dramas
*Previously Produced
+Unproduced
+All The Driving In The Holy Land (Is Done In The Name Of Allah). Description: Four vignettes feature various levels of black gay relationship drama.
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*Editorious. Production History: A featured weekend production at the George Houston Bass Playwrights at Rites & Reasons Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island. Description: Click here to read the synopsis and Here to read a script sample
*Heart of the Company/ Production history: Production History: 2016 Harlem Playwrights 21 Showcase atThe Acting Studio ( of a scene from the play) Description: Click Here to read the synopsis and Here to read a script sample.
*Hurricane House . Production History: Emerging Playwrights Competition at the Negro Ensemble Company, NYC. Description: A young man of African Descent must re-evaluate family ties and his own lack of religious beliefs in the wake of his sister’s murder and the appearance of a massive hurricane bearing her name on the day of her funeral. Click Here to read the synopsis and Here to read a script sample.
*In The Dark With The Walter Lees. Production history: Shades of Black black theatre festival at Playwrights Horizon in NYC; East of The Anacostia Theatre Festival; National Black Theatre Festival. Click here to read the synopsis and a script sample.
+Jermaine The No-Brain. Production History: The Goldman Theater of the Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC; Harmony Hall Regional Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD. Description: 10-year-old Jermaine is willful and irresponsible, until he meets a magical alligator, Bluesby Gator, who shows Jermaine the error of his ways. Click Here to read the synopsis and a script sample.
+Lay Your Hands On Me. Description: A gospel-inspired musical about Curtis, an African American would-be entrepreneur, Alycea, a church going woman, Tracy, her fellow churchwoman, and Kato, a gang member who infiltrates the church, and how their lives intertwine around a gang scheme to recover illicit drugs church pastor Goodall confiscated from a drug dealer. Click here to read the synopsis and Here to read a script sample.
*Rara Avis (Rare Bird) Production History: Featured production at the Celebrate The Glory Of Sugar Hill Festival (2009). Description: Four women in adjacent prison cells taunt, coddle and interrogate each other as the play weaves in and out of vignettes featuring famous black women struggling for freedom in American history.Click Here to read the synopsis and here to read a script sample.
*Revolutionaries. Production History: Evening Shades festival, Playwrights' Horizons/NYC; American Theatre Project One Act Play Festival at the Studio Theatre (Washington, DC). Description: The last woman in American with an afro is hunted by a man who may be the reincarnation of the African God Eshu and by the Rabid Women. Click Here to read the synopsis and HERE to read a script sample.
+The Deep Valley Boys. Description: The play features a journey in the present toward tolerance on the part of a teen (Michael) and his father, and a battle against homophobia in the past by his dead uncle roland, formerly a member of a famous singing group. The story takes place in the narrative present (1993) and in the 1950s. The play showcases the music of the historical group, The Deep River Boys, who recorded and performed for over 20 years in the US and overseas, while following conflicts among members of the fictional Deep Valley Boys over the gay relationship between Roland and the piano player. In the process Michael discovers the key to setting his own boy band up for success, and brings closure to his uncle’s affairs by reuniting Roland with his lover in death. CLICK HERE to read the synopsis and Here to read a script sample.
+The Last Queen Roams The City In Exile. Description: Three generations of Guyanese-American women living together in Brooklyn, NY navigate their dashed hopes and renewed dreams as they circle around a huge secret. Click Here to read the synopsis and Here to read a script sample.
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