No Place to Be Somebody
No Place to Be Somebody
Author: Charles Gordone
First Performance: 1969, New York
Published: 1969
Genre: Trag. in 3 acts; prose, verse, and songs
Setting: Johnny's Bar, New York City, 1960s
Cast: 11m, 5f
Johnny's Bar is starting up for the day, and his staff arrive: Shanty, a young white would-be drummer; Melvin, a young black would-be dancer; and three hostesses, Dee, Johnny's white girlfriend, Cora, Shanty's black girlfriend, and Evie. Gabe, a young black writer and actor, comes in and performs a black militant poem. Mary Lou, a white civil rights protester, comes in for a drink, and Johnny tells her to stay away from black politics. Sweets Crane, an elderly black who was ‘like a father’ to Johnny, is released from jail. Sweets steals off Gabe and off a small-time Mafia crook, then reveals that...
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