"Diva Daughters Dupree" by Kim Euell-Spring 2009.
This is a thought provoking dramatic comedy about family relationships, cultural differences and interracial dating. Set in 1995, the DuPree sisters, Billie, Sarah and Abbey come back to their former home in Philadelphia, 10 years after their parents death'. The sisters are spaced in age, experiences and family perspectives with different cultural attachments, which will cause friction. Abbey went to private schools. She married a Jewish man, an immigrant from Israel. Sarah, 35, a history professor, is not married but dates a graduate student. Billie, 40, was raised when the family was still struggling economically, and she married the boy next door. Their choice in lifestyles, jobs and husbands are the backdrop of much humor and drama.
The play was be presented on Friday, February 20 at 7:30pm and Saturday, February 21 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm in the Class of '49 Auditorium.
"Harmonic Dialogue"-Fall 2008
Director: Amanda Addison
Producer: Samaria Ship
Inspiration Director: Kristan Sock
"Happy Endings"
The story of two sisters, Ellie and Vi, who work as maid and laundress for the wealthy Harrisons.
But its the end of their good times, as Mr. Harrison has discovered his wife in an act of infidelity.
The sisters fear that if the marriage breaks up they will be both out of a job. Their nephew, Junie, chides them for their slavish sentiments at a time when blacks are on the march toward liberation.
But Ellie explains the facts of life to him...
"The Sirens"
A penetrating study of character and the destructive cycle which so often characterizes life in a big city black ghetto.
Employing a series of interlocking vignettes, made up of street encounters, dialogues and monologues, the author counterpoints the lives of two young prostitutes; the man who earlier deserted one of them;
and a high school age couple whose future is surely shadowed in the present existence of the others.
Deftly mixing humor and sadness, the play captures the feel of the streets and of a way of life.