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How Do You Do: A Nonsense Drama

10 Minute Play, Drama  /  1w, 2m

A post-absurdist exploration of the emptiness of language and culture during America's Cold War era.

How Do You Do: A Nonsense Drama

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

A post-absurdist exploration of the emptiness of language and culture in the Cold War era in America. Rodger and Dora Stereotype represent the comfortable black middle class, engaging in banal and superficial dialogue with one another. Paul, representing the black lower class, interrogates the couple’s actions, seeking a deeper truth and an alternative to white mainstream culture.

How Do You Do: A Nonsense Drama appears in Ed Bullins: Twelve Plays and Selected Writings, published by The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

History
How Do You Do: A Nonsense Drama was first produced in 1965 at the Firehouse Repertory Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
Cast Attributes

ROGER
DORA
PAUL

All characters are Black.

  • Time Period 1960s
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration 10 minutes

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $65 per performance

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Authors

Ed Bullins

Ed Bullins (1935-2021) was an African American playwright and author whose professional playwriting career began in 1965 with the production of How Do You Do, Dialect Determinism (or The Rally), and Clara's Ole Man at the Firehouse Repertory Theatre in San Francisco. He later ...

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