Drama, Drama, Drama

Drama, Drama, Drama: Plays Straight Outta Oakland is a book for actors, drama students, and classrooms, with plays, useful rehearsal warmup exercises, audition monologues, and scene study. It utilizes a wide variety of languages--standard English, Ebonics, slang, cursing and code-switching. This selection, written by Judy Juanita from 1986-2023, includes one-act plays that have been produced, studied, and staged in theaters and venues throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, LA, NYC, Winston-Salem, NC, and at many universities and colleges.

"The Art of Benevolence" combines four satirical vignettes that push the limits of kindness, running time: 70 minutes.

• First vignette, "Samaritan-ism" a young woman with a vulgar name, Mercy F**k, finds out about rudeness and charitable intentions as she goes through airports and the protocols of traveling from London to NYC.
• Second vignette, "The Art of Benevolence" a daughter comes home reluctantly to visit her ailing Irish-American mother and encounters her mother's spirit guide.
• Third vignette, "The History of Sweat" a farce about fragrance, funk, advertising, and subways throughout the world.
• Fourth vignette, "New York, New York, It's a Helluva of a Town" Students at Columbia University trick a professor into using the N word.

"Counter-Terrorism" takes on a homeless truth-teller who invades the mind of an educated shopaholic after 9/11. Two versions are included, one 60 minutes running time, and an abridged version running 10+ minutes.

"Wait Just A Goddam Minute: A Fat Drama in the Space of a Working Lunch" is a 10-minute play in which two characters (big, black women or BBW) talk about fat.

"A Moment of Silence" is a one-act play of the absurd, running time: 40 minutes. A distraught nurse's teenage son has overdosed causing her to fall head over heels in love with a duck.

Monologues brings in other voices, including an ex-slave, and utilizes narratives from the plays, including Ann, the homeless truth-teller.Suitable for scene study, auditions, warmup exercises.

Judy Juanita is a poet of the theatre, her characters three dimensional, universal, funny, and unforgettable, her dialogue filled with real talk in real situations. She explores racism, sexism, and aging with dignity. A book for rehearsal warmup exercises, audition monologues & classroom scene study that should be in the canon of theatrical literature. -Robert Alexander, Playwright, The Fire Next Time and Plays From The Boom Box Galaxy

Ms. Juanita is a gifted, mature artist whose plays have been featured in venues throughout the country, and who deserves much more recognition.

We were so impressed by Ms. Juanita's writing, and in particular her range and ability to write moving work under extreme time constraints, that we invited her to participate for an unprecedented five consecutive years [2005-2009].She never failed to produce something witty and amusing yet pertinent, and her plays were consistent audience favorites. -Erin Merritt, founder and former Artistic Director of Woman's Will, the San Francisco Bay Area's all-female Shakespeare company

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