{"product_id":"drama-drama-drama-plays-straight-outta-oakland-paperback","title":"Drama, Drama, Drama: plays straight outta Oakland - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudy Juanita\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDrama, Drama, Drama: Plays Straight Outta Oakland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a book for actors, drama students, and classrooms, with plays, useful rehearsal warmup exercises, audition monologues, and scene study. It utilizes a wide variety of languages--standard English, Ebonics, slang, cursing and code-switching. This selection, written by Judy Juanita from 1986-2023, includes one-act plays that have been produced, studied, and staged in theaters and venues throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, LA, NYC, Winston-Salem, NC, and at many universities and colleges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Art of Benevolence\"\u003c\/strong\u003e combines four satirical vignettes that push the limits of kindness, running time: 70 minutes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst vignette, \"Samaritan-ism\" a young woman with a vulgar name, Mercy F**k, finds out about rudeness and charitable intentions as she goes through airports and the protocols of traveling from London to NYC. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond vignette, \"The Art of Benevolence\" a daughter comes home reluctantly to visit her ailing Irish-American mother and encounters her mother's spirit guide. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThird vignette, \"The History of Sweat\" a farce about fragrance, funk, advertising, and subways throughout the world. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFourth vignette, \"New York, New York, It's a Helluva of a Town\" Students at Columbia University trick a professor into using the N word.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Counter-Terrorism\"\u003c\/strong\u003e takes on a homeless truth-teller who invades the mind of an educated shopaholic after 9\/11. Two versions are included, one 60 minutes running time, and an abridged version running 10+ minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wait Just A Goddam Minute: A Fat Drama in the Space of a Working Lunch\" \u003c\/strong\u003eis a 10-minute play in which two characters (big, black women or BBW) talk about fat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A Moment of Silence\"\u003c\/strong\u003e is a one-act play of the absurd, running time: 40 minutes. A distraught nurse's teenage son has overdosed causing her to fall head over heels in love with a duck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonologues \u003c\/strong\u003ebrings in other voices, including an ex-slave, and utilizes narratives from the plays, including Ann, the homeless truth-teller.Suitable for scene study, auditions, warmup exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52987743306035,"sku":"9780971635289","price":17.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RoFmnHSjK79780971635289.webp?v=1769068742","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/drama-drama-drama-plays-straight-outta-oakland-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}