Sash & Trim and Other Plays - Softcover

Drama. African American Studies. Queer Studies. Djola Branner's first collection of dramatic work, SASH & TRIM AND OTHER PLAYS, "takes the reader on a journey through blackness and queerness in ways that stretch the imagination and chronicle the history of black peoples in the diaspora," says E. Patrick Johnson, professor of performance studies at Northwestern University. Comprised of short plays cover (2006), oranges & honey (2005), the house that crack built (1996) and a full-length sash & trim (2008), this volume "expands the boundaries of 'black' art by experimenting with form, and bringing to the fore questions of gender and sexuality."

Djola Branner is an interdisciplinary artist/educator who combines movement, sound and light to create compelling portraits of American life for the stage. His original full-length and one-act dramas give voice to individuals historically absent from the theater, and explore a diverse and complex range of human experiences. Co-founder of the award-winning performance group Pomo Afro Homos, Branner toured nationally and internationally with the shows Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life and Dark Fruit, performing in venues as varied as college cafeterias and the Lincoln Center. His work has been supported by the Creative Capital, Jerome, McKnight and Bush Foundations; and published in the anthologies Colored Contradictions, and Staging Gay Lives and Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Lesbian and Gay Writers. Branner is currently dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts and associate professor of theatre at Hampshire College. SASH & TRIM AND OTHER PLAYS (RedBone Press, 2013) is the first collection of his dramatic work.