Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366249
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The piercing work is an extraordinary new departure.
Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366249
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The piercing work is an extraordinary new departure.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366249
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The piercing work is an extraordinary new departure.
Plays by American Women, 1900-1930
Author: Judith E. Barlow
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557830081
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557830081
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life
The America Play and Other Works
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367369
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367369
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"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.
The Red Letter Plays
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.
The America Play
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214236
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
THE STORY: Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of post-nuptial excitement, would visit this hole and watch the daily historical parades. One of these visi
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214236
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
THE STORY: Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of post-nuptial excitement, would visit this hole and watch the daily historical parades. One of these visi
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559368179
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set over the course of the Civil War.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559368179
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set over the course of the Civil War.
Golden Child
Author: David Henry Hwang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216827
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
THE STORY: In the winter of 1918, progressive Chinese landowner Eng Tieng-Bin's interest in Westernization and Christianity sets off a power struggle among his three wives, which will determine the future of his daughter, Ahn, Tieng-Bin's favorite,
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216827
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
THE STORY: In the winter of 1918, progressive Chinese landowner Eng Tieng-Bin's interest in Westernization and Christianity sets off a power struggle among his three wives, which will determine the future of his daughter, Ahn, Tieng-Bin's favorite,
An Octoroon
Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 082223226X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 082223226X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
Venus
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Parks' latest and most controversial work.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Parks' latest and most controversial work.
Paradise Blue
Author: Dominique Morisseau
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 0573705151
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Blue, a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood to shake free the demons of his past and better his life. But where does that leave his devoted Pumpkin, who has dreams of her own? And what does it mean for the club’s resident bebop band? When a mysterious woman with a walk that drives men mad comes to town with her own plans, everyone’s world is turned upside down. This dynamic and musically-infused drama shines light on the challenges of building a better future on the foundation of what our predecessors have left us.
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 0573705151
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Blue, a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood to shake free the demons of his past and better his life. But where does that leave his devoted Pumpkin, who has dreams of her own? And what does it mean for the club’s resident bebop band? When a mysterious woman with a walk that drives men mad comes to town with her own plans, everyone’s world is turned upside down. This dynamic and musically-infused drama shines light on the challenges of building a better future on the foundation of what our predecessors have left us.