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A Sunday Morning in The South
[edit]A Lynching Play written By Gloria Douglas Johnson
Setting
[edit]A Small town in the south in 1924. The action of the play takes place in the kitchen of Sue Jones in her small two bedroom couch located next to a church.
Characters
[edit]Sue Jones, Grandmother Aged Seventy
Tom Griggs, Her Grandson aged nineteen
Bossie Griggs, Her Grandson aged seven
Liza Twiggs, a Friend, aged sixty
White Girl
First Officer
Second Officer
Plot
[edit]A Sunday Morning in the South is Set in Sue Joneses two room house, specifically in her kitchen, she is making breakfast for her grandson Tom. She is making Light Rolls and sausage. Tom takes a long time to get out of bed, and Sue says ) "It’s as hard to git yawll out of the bed on Sunday morning as it is to pull hen’s teeth." They are discussing the events of the previous night, saying that the police are trying to catch a black person who supposedly attacked, possibly raped a white woman near the market. They say that white people are in blackface and they could have done it, also that they only see color and could possibly arrest the wrong man.
Songs
[edit]The Show is set next to a church, so throughout the show, there is gospel music heard that interrupts the Dialogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aRT-59MBqg
Let it shine on me, let it shine on me,
Let the light from your lighthouse shine on me.
Let it shine on me, let it shine on me,
Let the light from your lighthouse shine on (me).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8XXrmHo-2I
Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
and did my Sovereign die!
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I?
I must tell Jesus, I cannot bear my burdens alone
In my distress he surely will help me I cannot bear my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus, I cannot bear my burdens alone
Jesus my Lord he surely will help me Jesus will help me, Jesus alone.
References
[edit]Stephens, Judith L. "Art, Activism, and Uncompromising Attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Lynching Plays." African American Review 39.1/2 (2005): 87-102. Web.
Henderson, Dorothy Faye. "Georgia Douglas Johnson: A Study of Her Life and Literature." ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1995. Web
Perkins, Kathy A., 1954. Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Web
Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. “Georgia Douglas Johnson,” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. No. 1. Ed. Darlene Clark Hines. Brooklyn: Carolson, 1993.
Stephens, Judith L. "Politics and Aesthetics, Race and Gender: Georgia Douglas Johnson's Lynching Dramas as Black Feminist Cultural Performance."Text and Performance Quarterly20.3 (2000): 251. Web.
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