Status Updates From Four Black Revolutionary Plays

3rd play "Great Goodness of Life"- portrays a black & white man accused of harboring a murderer. This "murderer" is blackness. The image of the murderer is an amalgamation of the faces of black men fighting for justice/who have received white man's "justice." The accused is absolved of his "crime" when he accepts his "guilt" and executes a young black "murderer" who calls him Papa.

An interesting, heavily metaphorical reworking of Elijah Muhammad's separatist myth about the creation of the white race by an ancient black magician. Several lines in the play made me laugh out loud because I could attribute each sentiment to some people I know but also appreciate the way the myth itself flips the narrative of black people as "animals" or"lesser humans" and depicts white people in that way instead.

Finished Experimental Death Unit I.

Really absurd and, thus, interesting. Not for the faint of heart. Definite metaphor but also so real. I'm not sure of the meaning of everything here, but you have two drugged-up white men desperately fighting & killing over a black 'whore' whose magic they cannot resist. Then a group of black soldiers marches by and makes sure the two white men and the black woman are dead.

Didn’t like Experimental Death Unit #1, did like Black Mass

Experimental Death Unit #1 (1964)