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  • The Best of Strangers
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    The Best of Strangers

    Lee Hunkins

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    Play Description

    Two women sharing a hospital room cope with breast cancer, husbands, and racial barriers.

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
    Short Drama (about 55 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: Short in Collection, The Plays Tags: African American
    • About the Author(s)
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    Author(s)

    • Lee Hunkins

      Lee Hunkins's stage works include FREEDOM IS MY MIDDLE NAME (Open Eye Theater); THE BEST OF STRANGERS and SEQUESTERED (American Folk Theatre); ANYBODY I WANT TO BE and JUST ONE STEP (Plays for Living); REVIVAL (Family Classics Theatre); and THE DOLLS (Afro American Total Theatre). Television productions include Hollow Image, a two-hour teleplay for ABC-TV; The Sign Painter's Dream, Uncle Jed's Barbershop, and Always My Dad (PBS Reading Rainbow Series). Published works include THE BEST OF STRANGERS (Broadway Play Publishing); FREEDOM IS MY MIDDLE NAME (Dramatic Publishing); and REVIVAL (Sea Urchin Press). Hunkins is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and two Emmy nominations. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East; The Dramatists Guild; the League of Professional Theatre Women and New York Women in Film and Television..

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 10/1/1995
    Pages 502
    ISBN 9780881451122

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    The Best of Strangers is produced
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