The Red Letter Plays

The Red Letter Plays PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.

The Red Letter Plays

The Red Letter Plays PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.

In the Blood

In the Blood PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217565
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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THE STORY: In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter , Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter A is

The Red Letter Plays: in the Blood and Fucking A

The Red Letter Plays: in the Blood and Fucking A PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848429673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Two haunting riffs on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, from a leading American playwright. Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children, whose daily struggle among many is to master writing the alphabet, to help herself 'one day get a leg up'. She remains unable to get further than the letter A, scrawled in chalk beneath a railway bridge. Suzan-Lori Parks' play In the Blood was first staged at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York, in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000. Hester Smith of Fucking A works the only job available - back-street abortionist - in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her. Fucking A was first staged at the DiverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Texas, in February 2000.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter PDF Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The America Play and Other Works

The America Play and Other Works PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367369
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.

Red Letter Days

Red Letter Days PDF Author: Sarah-Jane Stratford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698195302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past. Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted—caught in the Red Menace that is shattering the lives of suspected Communists. Desperate to work, she escapes to London, determined to keep her dream alive and clear her good name. There, Phoebe befriends fellow American exile Hannah Wolfson, who has defied the odds to build a career as a successful television producer in England. Hannah is a woman who has it all, and is now gambling everything in a very dangerous game—the game of hiring blacklisted writers. Neither woman suspects that danger still looms . . . and their fight is only just beginning.

Many Loves and Other Plays

Many Loves and Other Plays PDF Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202329
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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For this volume, originally published in cloth in 1961, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington. As might be expected of the man who did most in our time to create a new and truly "American" idiom for poetry, Dr. Williams' writing for the stage challenges producers and actors to extend the range of modern drama.

The Book of Grace

The Book of Grace PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 155936646X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Topdog/Underdog.

The scarlet letter. The house of the seven gables, a romance

The scarlet letter. The house of the seven gables, a romance PDF Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit PDF Author: Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253211637
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded—not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." —Theaatre Journal "A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." —Bookwatch This anthology is the first to address the impact of lynching on U.S. theater and culture. By focusing on women's unique view of lynching, this collection of plays reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African American women artists. Included are plays spanning the period 1916 to 1994 from playwrights such as Angelina Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Lillian Smith, and Michon Boston.