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  • One Last Look
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    One Last Look

    Steve Carter

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    • Plays by Steve Carter

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    Play Description

    At his funeral, Eustace Baylor and his two families examine the tattered cloth of their lives. They find that if you would take one last look, you should take one first look.

    Production Info

    Cast: 11 total (7 female, 4 male)
    Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: Short in Collection, The Plays Tags: African American
    • About the Author(s)
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    • Special Notes

    Author(s)

    • Steve Carter

      Horace E. "Steve" Carter, Jr. was an American playwright, best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States. Mr. Carter received the Living Legend award at the 2001 National Black Theatre Festival. He was Victory Gardens Theater's first playwright-in-residence beginning in 1981 and has also served as playwright-in-residence at George Mason University. Carter's PECONG (winner of the Joseph Jefferson award for New Work) premiered at Victory Gardens in the 1989 – 1990 season and received subsequent productions at London's Tricycle Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Newark Symphony Hall. His plays EDEN (winner of an Outer Critics Circle award, an Audelco award, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award ) and NEVIS MOUNTAIN DEW received Midwest premieres, and DAME LORRAINE, HOUSE OF SHADOWS, SHOOT ME WHILE I'M HAPPY, SPIELE '36 OR THE FOURTH MEDAL and ROOT CAUSES all premiered at Victory Gardens. Mr. Carter died at the age of 90 in 2020.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 12/1/1986
    Pages 120
    ISBN 9780881450439

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