Owl Answers, The
- Short Play, Drama, Experimental, Not Applicable
- 7M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780816636037
An African-American girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines she is applying to bury her father in Westminster Cathedral.
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Description
- Short Play
- Drama, Experimental
- 40 minutes
- Time Period: Not Applicable
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
- Cautions: Intense Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
An African-American girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines she is applying to bury her father in Westminster Cathedral. The chorus enters. Ann Boleyn, Shakespeare, and William the Conqueror scorn her: whoever heard of a black with such a heritage? Her father was white, she protests, and her mother was his family's cook.; As a child she had to enter through the back door when she wanted to visit him.
A companion piece to Kennedy's revolutionary Funnyhouse of a Negro.
A companion piece to Kennedy's revolutionary Funnyhouse of a Negro.
Premiere Production:
The Owl Answers was first presented by Lucille Lortel at The White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, in 1965. It was directed by Michael Kahn.
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 3F
- Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Expandable casting
- Casting Notes: The characters change slowly back and forth into and out of themselves, leaving some garment from their previous selves upon them always to remind us of the nature of She who is Clara Passmore who is the Virgin Mary who is the Bastard who is the Owl's world.
BASTARD'S BLACK MOTHER - who is the Reverend's Wife, who is Anne Boleyn
GODDAM FATHER - who is the Richest White Man In The Town, who is the Dead White Father, who is Reverend Passmore
THE WHITE BIRD - who is Reverend Passmore's Canary, who is God's Dove
THE NEGRO MAN
SHAKESPEARE
CHAUCER
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
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An African-American girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines she is applying to bury her father in Westminster Cathedral. The chorus enters. Ann Boleyn, Shakespeare, and William the Conqueror scorn her: whoever heard of a black with such a heritage? Her father was white, she protests, and her mother was his family's cook.; As a child she had to enter through the back door when she wanted to visit him. |
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