This play is based around the doctrines of Yakub, which describe the origin of white peope as a failed artificial creation of a crazy black scientist of the same name (written as "Jacob" in the play). Colloquially called "the white beast" and causing general havoc for the ever peaceful blacks, ending with a call to "Let us declare the holy war. The Jihad. Or we cannot deserve to live."
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1966, Proctor's Theatre, New Jersey
2000
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd.
9780714530055
Published in Four Black Revolutionary Plays: Experimental Death Unit 1, A Black Mass, Madheart, and Great Goodness of Life. Originally performed with Sun Ra's Myth-Science Orchestra.
Published in Four Black Revolutionary Plays: Experimental Death Unit 1, A Black Mass, Madheart, and Great Goodness of Life. Originally performed with Sun Ra's Myth-Science Orchestra.
Realistic
An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their son.
Stylized
During rehearsals for a play about Mao Tse-Tung, events from the actors’ real lives become the subject of their own epic propaganda play. The Hundred Flowers Project, a story of self-generating narratives, is at once a cautionary tale of history and a parable of media’s role in the politics of today.
