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  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. ALSO BY DAEL ORLANDERSMITH
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Part 1 - Yellowman
  7. PRODUCTION CREDITS
  8. CHARACTER NOTES
  9. PART I
  10. PART II
  11. PART III
  12. PART IV
  13. PART V
  14. Part 2 - My Red Hand, My Black Hand
  15. PRODUCTION CREDITS
  16. CHARACTER NOTES
  17. Copyright

EUGENE: I think of soft Southern women like Momma and Alma. That’s the thing that is–was (catches himself)–so great about Alma. She’s in New York now–that’s the last I heard–but I remember her softness. When I think about that summer before she left to go to New York I think about a dress–a summer dress that floated when she walked in St. Stephen–that dress gave her an incredible softness–a softness that only girls from the South have. When she got to New York, there was that quick/slick/glide but in Carolina she simply floated in this dress. I always think about that dress. It was a lilac dress that kinda fell off the shoulder. And there was a day she wore the dress and was wearing a lilac perfume–a soft-smelling lilac perfume. She was wearing the lilac perfume and wearing her lilac dress. I said, “Alma you look soo good in that dress/you really do/you look good/why’d you have to look so good?”

THE END

Part 2 - My Red Hand, My Black Hand

My Red Hand,
My Black Hand

PRODUCTION CREDITS

My Red Hand, My Black Hand was commissioned by Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, and given its world premiere presentation there on October 10, 2001, with the following cast:

DAUGHTER Mary Hodges
FATHER Jack Burning
MOTHER Sandra Mills Scott

Director Sarah Peterson
Set designer Frank Alb erino
Costume designer Stacey Galloway
Production stage manager Tracey J. Yang

CHARACTER NOTES

DAUGHTER: Indian and black, aged late teens to mid-twenties.

FATHER: Native American, late fifties to mid-sixties.

MOTHER: Black, late fifties to mid-sixties.

NOTE: The reference in the script “boom, boom, boom, boom!” should be spoken like the John Lee Hooker song “Boom, Boom!” The other reference, “Gonna shoot it right down,” also should be spoken/performed in the spirit of the song. Note that “sport high-heeled shoes” and “sporting high-heeled shoes” are references to Chuck Berry’s song “Sweet Little Sixteen.” Please note also that the stage is bare. If there is a need for chairs or musical instruments that is fine, but no more than that.