The Colors Of Your Life

The Colors Of Your Life is a play about racial and sexual discrimination in the USA in the 1960s and the present day, seen through the dramatic lives and often terrifying experiences of its two characters, May and Shirley, who are grandmother and granddaughter.The play can be performed with or without songs especially written by Ed Anderson.Without songs, it is an absorbing account of life for Black women in America, then and now.With songs, it remains a powerful statement, the songs adding to the account traced in the text.The play is for a cast of two and can be presented with the simplest of sets on stage, in any non-theatrical location (a school or community center for example), or on film/video, or on radio.

Bruce Crowther has previously published some 15 crime novels and a similar number of non-fiction books, mainly on cinema and popular music. He has also been researcher, adviser and senior contributor to what became one of the world’s largest databases of popular music, both in print and on-line. He has written for television and the stage and has recently returned to his first love, crime fiction