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* TheQuisling: Purlie's brother Gitlow is Cotchipee's overseer of the cotton workers and all-around Yes Man, especially when Cotchipee wants someone to help convince Charley that the local Black population is [[HappinessInSlavery happy the way things are]].
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* WorkOffTheDebt: Due to Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee owning most of the land and debt of the city's Black residents, the quality of life for them is barely better than it was during slavery. This was TruthInTelevision for many rural Black societies of the time, and one of Purlie's motivation for buying back the Church is to create a platform where he and others could preach and organize for freedom from his oppressive structure.
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* WorkOffTheDebt: WorkOffTheDebt / IndenturedServitude: Due to Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee owning most of the land and debt of the city's Black residents, the quality of life for them is barely better than it was during slavery. This was TruthInTelevision for many rural Black societies of the time, and one of Purlie's motivation for buying back the Church is to create a platform where he and others could preach and organize for freedom from his oppressive structure.
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* EpunymousTitle: Purile is, indeed, victorious by the end.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:top: Creator/OssieDavis and Creator/RubyDee in 1961. Bottom: Creator/LeslieOdomJr and Creator/KaraYoung in 2023]]
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* PygmalionPlot: Purlie has to train the naive and uneducated Luliebell to pass herself off as the college-educated Cousin Bee. Luliebell is hilariously bad at it, but almost manages to pull it off because of how stupid Cotchipee is.
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* FilmedStageProduction: In addition to the 1963 feature film, the 2023 revival was filmed for PBS's Great Performances.
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* PygmalionPlot: Purlie has to train the naive and uneducated Luliebell to pass herself off as the college-educated Cousin Bee. Luliebell is hilariously bad at it, but almost manages to pull it off because of how stupid and Cotchipee is.
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* TheDogBitesBack: After suffering abuse at the hands of his father for much of the play, Charley gets back at him by revealing that while he did buy the Church as his father ordered him to [[spoiler: he did it in Purlie's name]]. The shock of hearing this causes the Cap'n to [[DiedStandingUp die on his feet]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: After suffering abuse at the hands of his father for much of the play, Charley gets back at him by revealing that while he did buy the Church as his father ordered him to [[spoiler: he did it in Purlie's name]]. The shock of hearing this causes the Cap'n to [[spoiler: [[DiedStandingUp die on his feet]].feet]] ]].
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'''Purlie Victorious (A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch)''' is a comedy play written by Creator/OssieDavis in 1961. It tells the story of Purlie Victorious Judson, a reverend and small-time con man who returns to his hometown in rural Georgia to buy back the local church by conning Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee, the wealthy white landowner, out of an inheritance intended for Purlie's deceased cousin by passing off Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins, a young woman he met while travelling, as her.
The play opened on Broadway with Davis himself in the title role in 1961 and ran through 1962. A revival was staged in 2023 with Creator/LeslieOdomJr as Purlie. In 1963 most of the original cast reprised their roles for a film adaptation, alternately titled ''Purlie Victorious'' or ''Gone Are the Days''. In 1970 the play was adapted into a musical titled ''Purlie!''
!!Tropes Associated With This Play Include:
* BadassPreacher: Purlie, to a degree. He's charismatic and good at thinking on his feet when it comes to his schemes, although at the end we see he doesn't always follow through.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: The fate of Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee]].
* TheDogBitesBack: After suffering abuse at the hands of his father for much of the play, Charley gets back at him by revealing that while he did buy the Church as his father ordered him to [[spoiler: he did it in Purlie's name]]. The shock of hearing this causes the Cap'n to [[DiedStandingUp die on his feet]].
* PygmalionPlot: Purlie has to train the naive and uneducated Luliebell to pass herself off as the college-educated Cousin Bee. Luliebell is hilariously bad at it, but almost manages to pull it off because of how stupid Cotchipee is.
* SingleLineOfDescent: Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee tells his son Charley that the only reason he doesn't kill him is because he's the only Cotchipee descendent.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee is very proud of his family's confederate heritage and still styles himself as a Confederate-era plantation owner despite the play taking place in the Civil Rights era. In fact the whole town could be seen as this trope due to how the social structure is set up (see below).
* StupidGood: Lutiebell, who never had a proper education, is one of the kindest and most big-hearted characters in the play. Charley, too, although he has enough education to be aware of the consequences of the Supreme Court's anti-discrimination cases, is still not that bright.
* ATasteOfTheLash: A favorite punishment of Cotchipee. In fact, anger over his doing this to Purlie years in the past is one of Purlie's driving forces for finding a way to buy back the church.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Due to Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee owning most of the land and debt of the city's Black residents, the quality of life for them is barely better than it was during slavery. This was TruthInTelevision for many rural Black societies of the time, and one of Purlie's motivation for buying back the Church is to create a platform where he and others could preach and organize for freedom from his oppressive structure.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Many of the descriptions of punishments doled out to cotton pickers and other details of everyday life are taking directly from Ossie Davis's childhood.
The play opened on Broadway with Davis himself in the title role in 1961 and ran through 1962. A revival was staged in 2023 with Creator/LeslieOdomJr as Purlie. In 1963 most of the original cast reprised their roles for a film adaptation, alternately titled ''Purlie Victorious'' or ''Gone Are the Days''. In 1970 the play was adapted into a musical titled ''Purlie!''
!!Tropes Associated With This Play Include:
* BadassPreacher: Purlie, to a degree. He's charismatic and good at thinking on his feet when it comes to his schemes, although at the end we see he doesn't always follow through.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: The fate of Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee]].
* TheDogBitesBack: After suffering abuse at the hands of his father for much of the play, Charley gets back at him by revealing that while he did buy the Church as his father ordered him to [[spoiler: he did it in Purlie's name]]. The shock of hearing this causes the Cap'n to [[DiedStandingUp die on his feet]].
* PygmalionPlot: Purlie has to train the naive and uneducated Luliebell to pass herself off as the college-educated Cousin Bee. Luliebell is hilariously bad at it, but almost manages to pull it off because of how stupid Cotchipee is.
* SingleLineOfDescent: Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee tells his son Charley that the only reason he doesn't kill him is because he's the only Cotchipee descendent.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee is very proud of his family's confederate heritage and still styles himself as a Confederate-era plantation owner despite the play taking place in the Civil Rights era. In fact the whole town could be seen as this trope due to how the social structure is set up (see below).
* StupidGood: Lutiebell, who never had a proper education, is one of the kindest and most big-hearted characters in the play. Charley, too, although he has enough education to be aware of the consequences of the Supreme Court's anti-discrimination cases, is still not that bright.
* ATasteOfTheLash: A favorite punishment of Cotchipee. In fact, anger over his doing this to Purlie years in the past is one of Purlie's driving forces for finding a way to buy back the church.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Due to Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee owning most of the land and debt of the city's Black residents, the quality of life for them is barely better than it was during slavery. This was TruthInTelevision for many rural Black societies of the time, and one of Purlie's motivation for buying back the Church is to create a platform where he and others could preach and organize for freedom from his oppressive structure.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Many of the descriptions of punishments doled out to cotton pickers and other details of everyday life are taking directly from Ossie Davis's childhood.
