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Full title ''[[Having Our Say. The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years]]'', the play is an adaptation of the book ''[[Having Our Say]]'' by  Sarah (Sadie) Delany and Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth, and based on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany, the daughters of a minister born in slavery and a brilliant woman of mixed ancestry.
 
Full title ''[[Having Our Say. The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years]]'', the play is an adaptation of the book ''[[Having Our Say]]'' by  Sarah (Sadie) Delany and Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth, and based on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany, the daughters of a minister born in slavery and a brilliant woman of mixed ancestry.
  
First performed 1995.
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First performed 1995 and published by the Dramatists Play Service Inc, 1996.
  
 
==Translations and Adaptions==
 
==Translations and Adaptions==

Revision as of 18:41, 27 May 2024

Having Our Say is a play by Emily Mann ()


Original Text

Full title Having Our Say. The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, the play is an adaptation of the book Having Our Say by Sarah (Sadie) Delany and Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth, and based on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany, the daughters of a minister born in slavery and a brilliant woman of mixed ancestry.

First performed 1995 and published by the Dramatists Play Service Inc, 1996.

Translations and Adaptions

Performance history in South Africa

1998: Performed at the Market Theatre, directed by Loretta Greco with Micki Grant and Lizan Mitchell.

Sources

https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1917

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Translations and adaptations

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