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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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  • Female: 0
  • Male: 2
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Zatembe (a fictional African nation)
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Two

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ERIC: Tshembe! You came!
TSHEMBE: Where is my father?
ERIC: He died last night.
TSHEMBE: So I missed the last goodbyes.
ERIC: Each day for a month I told him you would come and then last night he no longer believed.
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TSHEMBE: So did our mother! Do you despise her memory too? Have they finally turned the world upside down in your head, boy? Does Madame Neilsen know about my father?
ERIC: I thought that you would want to tell her.

Lorraine Hansberry. Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. 1972. pp.68-74

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