Funnyhouse of a Negro
Concord Theatricals Corp. · Paperback · February 11, 2011
Drama Characters: 3 male 5 female Drop & wing Set A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg Queen Victoria Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ.
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- Who it’s for
- A compact, playful stage piece built for performance and close attention.
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, Plays by Women
- Published
- Concord Theatricals Corp., February 11, 2011
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Drama Characters: 3 male 5 female Drop & wing Set A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg Queen Victoria Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. Only she and Lumumba are not dressed in white; she has a white fixation and wants to become whiter and whiter. She harangues against her father who gave her a jungle strain and then sold out to white harlotry dreams of returning to Africa to save the continent and hang
On Stage
A compact, playful stage piece built for performance and close attention.
Come here for
- playful, theatrical immersion
- staged language with a sharp comic edge
Expect
- lean, sustained reading
- theatrical texture over plot
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 95% |
|---|---|
| American Plays | 45% |
| Plays by Women | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Plays
- Tragedy
- Absurdist Fiction
- Authors
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Publisher
- Concord Theatricals Corp.
- Published
- February 11, 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- African American Plays