Other Side of the Game

by Amanda Parris

Overview

In the 1970s, Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she's angry enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he's been, when a police officer stops them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770919914
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.63(h) x (d)

About the Author

By day, Amanda Parris is a TV and radio host. By night, she writes stories for the stage and screen. In past lives she was an educator who wrote arts-based curricula, attended numerous acting auditions, and dreamed of opening a school that Blue Ivy Carter would attend. She is the co-founder of the award-winning alternative education organization Lost Lyrics and worked with the Remix Project. She was a playwright-in-residence at Cahoots Theatre and Alameda Theatre and studied writing and acting at b current and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She is based in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

"Parris's play does the worthy work of combating the idea that Black women are superhuman, able to bear the weight of their communities, fight societal racism on micro and macro levels, and care for their families while managing a tight budget." —Carly Maga, Toronto Star

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