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Every Night When The Sun Goes Down
by Phillip Hayes Dean

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Highlights

8

Medium Cast

3

Female

5

Male

120 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

Synopsis

THE STORY: Set in a seedy hotel of a black neighborhood in a Midwestern city, the play introduces a series of finely drawn representative characters: a pimp who sends his girl out on the street to earn money for his drugs; the light-skinned dancer

ThemesAmericanDrama

Press Reviews

"A powerful allegory of black life in modern America. “He is a playwright happily obsessed with meanings and metaphors."

— The New York Times

"…filled with the imagery, language and ideas of a writer going full blast."

— New York Post

Publication

PublisherDramatists Play Service
Year1998
BindingPaperback
Pages72
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822203704
ISBN-100822203707

Every Night When The Sun Goes Down is a American play written by Phillip Hayes Dean and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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Dramatists Play Service · 1998 · 72 pp

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