Box 82

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1992 Script for Everyday People pilot, "Juneteenth," by Shange; bound photocopies of It Hasn't Always Been This Way with handwritten notes, and collection of poems/excerpts from published work by Shange

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Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter script revised master copy (Freedom Theatre Reading, 1994), production schedule and notes

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated, includes newspapers and magazine clippings with coverage and reviews of Shange’s and others’ works; playbills and programs; flyers and posters; press materials for works of Shange’s and works of others that she attended; recordings of television and radio media appearances; and ephemera such as travel itineraries, theater tickets, and book jackets. This series documents both Shange’s own creative output and frequent speaking...

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Journal with multicolored pages and black cover; contains contact information, to-dos, draft of "I Heard Eric Dolphy in his Eyes," other drafts of poems, and possible performance outline

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3, Journals, Agendas, and Notes, 1972-2018, undated, includes notebooks, journals, agendas, notepads, lists, scratch paper, photocopies, and other notes related to Shange’s personal, professional, and creative life. The materials in this series contain personal diary entries and musings, some of which make mention of family and friends; journal entries about dreams; notes and materials related to personal health and recovery from substance abuse and strokes; notes, research materials,...

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Subseries 1.22, The Love Space Demands: a Continuing Saga, 1990-2004, undated, includes manuscripts and publishers proofs with edits and a recording of a performance.The Love Space Demands: a Continuing Saga is a collection of poems originally published by St. Martin’s Press in 1991 and first staged as a performance in 1992.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 1.25, Other and multiple works, 1996-2018, undated, includes materials related to other works by Shange (for which there were not enough items to constitute a subseries). This subseries also contains groupings of materials in which multiple works were originally arranged together (for example, photocopies of multiple excerpts or poems grouped and edited for performance or anthologies). Types of materials include photocopies of published works (some with notes), typewritten and...