Stage Plays

Unique poetry, plays, short stories, children's stories and visual poetry by an American author

Deborah Young's stage play themes addresses self-esteem, relationships, slavery, love, loss, HIV, AIDS, greed, deception, extortion, etc.

Deborah Young's stage play manuscripts will soon be available for performances by amateur, professional and Broadway theatrical groups, etc.

Soul Food Visual Poetry

Bowl

Excerpt: ...Bowls and bowls of slow cooked red beans

Black-eyed peas and butter beans

Fat back seasoned cabbage, mustard and collard greens

Pickled pigs feet, crispy fried cracklings and hog head cheese, all, protein

Chitterlings, ham hocks, neck bones, hog mauls, Hoppin' John

Everyday meals or goings-on, they are always flavorsome, cultural bonbons

A poem to honor the origins and joys of African American food

The author, Deborah Young, dedicates Soul Food visual poetry to the numerous people who have created some of the most mouth watering soul food dishes in the world, including:

	William & Julia Lee, Jeff & Charity Lee Young, George & Agnes Lindo, Queen Payne
	Beatrice Sue Ella Reed, James & Theron Young, Amanda Lee Whitehead
	Dan & Heddie Faulkner, Lottie Mae Spillers, Theresa Hunter, Palzetta Herndon Wilkerson
	Henry & Hattie Sims, Robert & Melvina Young, Virginia Smith, Ernest Young, Sr.
	Anna Toles, Dorothy Davis, Rachel Bell, Susie J. Latham, Everine Sanders Jefferies

Stolen Dignity Visual Poetry

Tall Drum On Stand

Excerpt: African drums, fading into the night

Innocent souls, snatched, outright

A poem about the effects of slave trading

An Abbreviated List Of Deborah Young's Stage Plays

Black Pearl a stage play in which a young lady's medical emergency connects her to memory lane

George and Agnes: A True Natchez Love Connection a stage play of a riveting true love story, in the midst of slavery during the early 1800s

Forks of the Road a stage play reveals a southern town's deep dark secrets, which leads to the platform for national racial healing

Oh Brothers, Oh Sistuhs a stage play about the manner in which the HIV, AIDS epidemic jolts a close knit group of urban professionals

Determined a stage play displays the gumption of a young female entrepreneur, in spite of, adversity