Methuen Drama, 2011

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Young Toulou has run away from the cotton fields of Mississippi to big city Memphis to make it as a blues singer. When she falls in love with a rambling bluesman, Ace of Spades, she gives into the suggestions of the local madam, Candylady...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the early noughties, Hurt Village is the story of a community disregarded by the state. A housing project in North Memphis, originally developed in the 1950s to attract white residents, the area had, by the nineties, become a byword...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (10), Female (6), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the final days of the Second World War at Miss Mary’s Press and Curl beauty parlour and women’s boarding house in Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning unites a group of young women whose lives have been affected...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 1, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The night before his assassination, King retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving an acclaimed speech to a massive church congregation. When a mysterious young maid visits him to deliver a cup of coffee, King...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Student Editions

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The night before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving an acclaimed speech to a massive church congregation. When a mysterious young maid visits him to deliver a cup...

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...On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King...