Goin'a Buffalo
Goin'a Buffalo Author: Ed Bullins
First Performance: 1968, New York
Published: 1969
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Curt's apartment and strip club, Los Angeles, early 1960s
Cast: 10m, 2f, extras
Curt and Rich, two blacks in their twenties, are playing chess and being served beers by Curt's attractive, long-suffering wife Pandora, when they are visited by Art Garrison, a quiet thoughtful young black, who saved Curt's life in the county jail during a riot between white and black prisoners. Curt is planning a job which will pay for them all to go to Buffalo and begin a new life, and Art is persuaded to join them. Pandora and her white friend Mamma Too Tight, who has to feed her drug habit, leave to go to work as hookers in a local club. At the club, Art and Mamma get close, and Mamma's pimp Shaky comes and...
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