Everyone who is a theatre major, English major, or straight up just has a passion to read plays, has probably ventured out beyond the already-well-established scripts/playwrights. However, it is very rare that people take notice of the plays written by POC and having the rich content of non-white culture in them. Therefore, here is a list of plays that you can read and/or watch that are pretty great.
1) Marisol by Jose Rivera
It's a magical-realistic play of a post-apocalyptic New York and how one Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx can survive and rise, even without her guardian angel.
2) Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend
These five scripts depict the story of Fa Mulan that is almost completely different than Disney (as one might assume). There is even a movie on one of the scripts!
3) Barriers by Rewhana Lew Mira
A Muslim woman comes home to her family to declare her engagement to her white fiance, but that doesn't sit well with the rest of the family.
4) Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry
As said vaguely yet best by IMBD, "A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family."
5) Eclipsed by Danai Gurira
Set in 2003, the play tells the story of five Liberian women and their tale of survival near the end of the Second Liberian Civil War.
6) POUND by Marga Gomez
It's a satire about lesbian stereotypes in hollywood and how Gomez hysterically plays them as well as her gay nephew Mikey.
7) Blue, Black and White by Donald Mossi
This play is about the country’s first democratically-elected president, Sir Seretse Khama, and his interracial, transformative marriage.
8) Motswana: Africa, Dream Again by Donald Molosi
As said best by The Mantle, "the story of Botswana and its people as they transition from a British colony to an independent state."
9) The man who turned into a stick by Kōbō Abe
This is another magical-realistic play that talks about death in the most bizarre way: through a stick.
10) Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
