Drama, Drama, Drama - Juanita, Judy
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Drama, Drama, Drama: Plays Straight Outta Oakland is 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. "The Art of Benevolence" combines four…mehr

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Drama, Drama, Drama: Plays Straight Outta Oakland is 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. "The Art of Benevolence" combines four satirical vignettes that push the limits of kindness, running time: 70 minutes. First 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. Second vignette, "The Art of Benevolence": a daughter comes home reluctantly to visit her ailing Irish-American mother and encounters her mother's spirit guide. Third vignette, "The History of Sweat": a farce about fragrance, funk, advertising, and subways throughout the world. Fourth vignette, "New York, New York, It's a Helluva of a Town": Students at Columbia University trick a professor into using the N word. "Counter-Terrorism" 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. "Wait Just A Goddam Minute: A Fat Drama in the Space of a Working Lunch" is a 10-minute play in which two characters (big, black women or BBW) talk about fat. "A Moment of Silence" 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. Monologues brings 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.
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Judy Juanita's poetry collection, Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland, won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2021. Her story collection, The High Price of Freeways, won the Tartt Fiction Award in 2021 and was published by Livingston Press in 2022. Her short story, "The Black House," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022, and her poem "Bling" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. The long prose poem in Gawdzilla, "The Gun as Performance Poem," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014. Her semi-autobiographical novel Virgin Soul is about a young woman who joins the Black Panther Party in the 60s (Viking, 2013). Her collection of essays, DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland [EquiDistance Press, 2016] examines the intersection of race, gender, politics, and spirituality as experienced by a black activist and self-described "feminist foot soldier." The collection was a distinguished finalist in OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize. A native of Berkeley who grew up and resides in Oakland, she teaches writing at University of California, Berkeley.