Thugun and Natasha: A Drama with Rap

By Mary Anneeta Mann

How to move beyond global warfare and gang and
street violence is explored through the unlikely medium of RAP in THUGUN AND
NATASHA, a drama with rap, for family audiences. The play is rooted in the
real life Los Angeles killing of a
young black girl by a Korean storekeeper who was a woman.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> In THUGUN AND NATASHA, the gun is
personified and becomes THUGUN a master rapper and manipulator of peoples
hearts and minds. RAP replaces the
Greek Chorus, as Thugun the time-honoredstyle="mso-spacerun: yes"> gun with all his attendant hubris,style="mso-spacerun: yes"> raps his way through life, exploring every
angle of temptation for young men in an ethnically divided community as well as
those living in fear while trying to keep their lives and their businesses
intact. Sookee the storekeeper becomes
a tragic perpetrator as well as deceived victim when she unwittinglystyle="mso-spacerun: yes"> kills the promising Natasha, an A student, a
brilliant, precocious teenager while Thugun, the man-made oddity gloats in
his achievement. Sookee and Thugunstyle="mso-spacerun: yes"> are finally put on trial, as is Article
II, the second amendment of the U.S.
Constitution, humanity itself and the will of human beings to transcend their
differences and reach the ultimate intuition of reverence for life. THUGUN
AND NATASHA is a play for all ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 10, 2003
• ISBN: 9781410750280

Mary Anneeta Mann

Mary Anneeta Mann was born in Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia Her formal education ended after two years of High School. She obtained her B.A. degree with honors in English from Sydney University, the M.A. in Theatre from the University of California at Berkeley and the Ph.D. in Communications and Drama from the University of Southern California. Her book HUBRIS: The Construction of Tragedy, based upon Aristotle's Poetics and his Science of Being Altogether, explores the world view of tragic dramatists in plays from the Greeks to the present day. Her three plays for youth and family are Maria and the Comet on the life of Maria Mitchell, The Round Table which moves between the knights and ladies ofKing Arthurand theUnited Nations at the dawnof the 21st.century, (published as TWO FAMILY PLAYS)and ThuGun and Natasha, a drama with rap, moving beyond guns and violence, written forinner cityyouthin the United States of America. Science and Spirituality, co-authored with Rev. Leland Stewart of Unity-and-Diversity and other compilers, clarifies the common origin of both Science and Spirituality and, through the understanding of spirit is one, paths are many,shows how people of all faiths and belierfs can celebrate their common humanity. There Are No Enemies begins with the Philosophy of Lifeand includesarticles on its practical ethics and poemsas well as "The Right of the Womb - post 911". Mary has a son Attica Andrew and a grandaughter Destiny.

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