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| Tennessee Songbird Big Black has built most of the town around him with his bare hands. Raised by his great-grandfather, he is known by everyone as a gentle giant, standing more than 6'5" tall. Caring for the townspeople like the birds that frequent his yard to sing in his trees, Big Black has never had to fight, his mere size settled all arguments. All that changed with the arrival of Indigo, the lady who too wanted to sing from the branch of a great oak. Until the Day Breaks Momma Lee is dead and Willie Big Spirit has been defeated. The Morris family is finally able to begin the healing process but Shula does not hang around to participate. She has left to find a new life in a new city. Leaving behind her past and all her old fears, she travels to New York with Solomon only to find her fears have magnified and Willie is still alive. The Book of Years US Army Chaplain Ruddick Brown does two tours in Vietnam beginning in 1965. His journey as a member of the clergy and the age old question of whether or not the clergy should bear arms takes us from 1965 through 1989 from Vietnam to Kansas to West Germany and finally to Texas where the choice he made while under enemy fire is weighed some 24 years later. Documented in a book of years, this question divides the clergy and means the difference between life and death in many cases. Wolves Mara has been studying wolves; Zed has been studying Mara. Lynn, Mara's friend and neighbor is trying not to study either of them. A comical journey into the world of Mara, Zed and Lynn. |
| Synopses of plays by Robin Byrd |