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Single Black Female

  • Lisa B. Thompson
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573699580

A socially significant and very entertaining two-woman show that manages to be simultaneously self-deprecating and proud.

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! The 2004 LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Comedy
Single Black Female is a two-woman show with rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle class women in urban America as they search for love, clothes and dignity in a world that fails to recognize them amongst a parade of stereotypical images.

SBF 1, an English literature professor, and SBF 2, a corporate lawyer, keep each other balanced as they face their fears of rejection, hopes for romance and reminisce about black girlhood wounds. While embodying a variety of characters, the girlfriends discuss the absurdities of interracial dating, the lure of recreational shopping and the merits of college reunions for bolstering one's self-esteem.

After reviewing their escapades in past relationships and confessing their own mounting anxieties about commitment and the possibility of motherhood, the pair realize their best chance at love may be found closer than they ever imagined.
REVIEWS:

A socially significant and very entertaining two-woman show that manages to be simultaneously self-deprecating and proud.– The New York Times'Fresh...hugely entertaining theater!'– Variety'Perfectly suited for the post

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Premiere Production: 1999, Theatre Rhinoceros

Characters

  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), All Black, All Female

  • SBF 1: African American woman. Mid-thirties. A mildly androgynous literature professor with natural hair, bookish, style and clothing accentuated with "afrocentric" accessories. She wears eccentric eyeglasses.

  • SBF 2: African American woman. Mid-thirties. An attorney who sports a flowing perm or hair weave and wears sexy business suits. SBF 1's best friend, confidante and alter ego.

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    Single Black Female is a two-woman show with rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle class women in urban America as they search for love, clothes and dignity in a world that fails to recognize them amongst a parade of stereotypical images. SBF 1, an English literature professor, and SBF 2, a corporate lawyer, keep each other balanced as they face their fears of rejection, hopes for romance and reminisce about black girlhood wounds. While embodying a variety of characters, the girlfriends discuss the absurdities of interracial dating, the lure of recreational shopping and the merits of college reunions for bolstering one's self-esteem. After reviewing their escapades in past relationships and confessing their own mounting anxieties about commitment and the possibility of motherhood, the pair realize their best chance at love may be found closer than they ever imagined.

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