Buffalo Hair
by Carlyle Brown

Name: Buffalo Hair
Brand: Carlyle Brown
SKU: 9780822214632
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Buffalo Hair Book Cover — Buffalo Hair Cover

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Medium Cast

Male

90 minsFlexible Cast SizeExterior SetAmerican

Synopsis

THE STORY: During the night, on a dusty, sage-brush covered island on the southern plains, in the middle of the Red River, black Buffalo Soldiers capture a young warrior called Buffalo Hair, a black man who has chosen to live among the Cheyenne eve

Press Reviews

"Race, war and history collide in this play, set in 1874, the year of the Red River War on the southern plains, when a group of black troopers of the Tenth Cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers, are sent to suppress an uprising of the Southern Cheyenne. “Playwright Carlyle Brown aptly exposes the ambiguity of racial identity and the tragedy of the ”divide and conquer“ mentality which pitted African Americans against Native Americans…BUFFALO HAIR is powerful stuff…” —Insight News. “Basing his play on…historical fact, Brown takes a new slant on the traditional Western, attempting to come to terms with history, to rewrite and reclaim the past. He moves beyond typical melodrama and fashions a powerful examination of the complexities of race…and what it means in the lives of the characters."
— Equal Time