Harlem Duet
Harlem Duet is a 1997 dramatic play by Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. Billie, a young graduate student in Harlem, deals with her husband Othello leaving her for a white woman named Mona. The play moves through time to show Billie and Othello's relationship (or an analogue thereof) being torn apart by racial tensions at a Southern US cotton plantation in 1860, and in Harlem in 1928 and the present. Though the characters draw inspiration from Shakespeare's play "Othello", Billie and the story are original creations.

Sears received the Governor General's Award for Best New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Harlem Duet.
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dramatic play
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Canadian
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Djanet Sears
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graduate student
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Harlem
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Othello
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Mona
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Governor General's Award
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Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
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Harlem Duet
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Harlem Duet
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1860
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1928
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