Storyline This play is based on the tragic true story of the first African-American to graduate from West Point. Assigned to Fort Davis, Texas in 1881, Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper was framed by white officers who accused him of embezzling government funds. Flipper was finally vindicated 95 years later - only a week after THE TRIAL OF THE MOKE ended it world premier run in 1976.
Storyline Joanna follows a 17 year old girl (Genevieve Waite) who comes
to London and falls into the swinging cosmopolitan of the big city;
before associating herself with some high-rollers via her connections to
the art world. Indulging in random holidays abroad - courtesy of her
newfound friend Lord Sanderson (Donald Sutherland) - and casual sex,
courtesy of the rest of her male friends. However, when Joanna
eventually falls in love with Gordon (Calvin Lockhart, The Baron, Uptown Saturday Night), her life begins
to catch up with her, causing her endless trouble and problems. Michael
Sarne displays the changing attitudes to love and sex in the 1960’s
through the eyes of a promiscuous young art student, all the while
highlighting issues with racism, drugs and sexual politics.
Storyline Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on
continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the
European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
With him are social-climber Margaret, to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo,
who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the
kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the one exclusive
neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor
blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi
family and their beautiful daughter, Salambo, who catches his eye as
does her boy friend the procurer Roscoe. Using the excuse of watching
birds he watches them closely through field glasses with the coolness
and detachment of a scientist watching insects under a magnifying glass.
When Salambo is forced to become a whore in order to keep her family
together, Leo, despite the pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo who has just
about ...