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"Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of her work notwithstanding, outrageously optimistic. She seems to believe that the world can change. She certainly writes as if she intends to set it on fire."—Tony Kushner"Wallace is that unfashionable thing – a deeply political US playwright who unashamedly writes about ideas rather than feelings."—[i]The GuardianLauded for her topical, searing explorations of the intricate...
| Автор | Naomi Wallace |
"By far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific and erratic chronicler of marginal lives."—[i]The New York Times"The lifeblood of Guirgis's dialogue is the most expressive cursing since Shakespeare."—[i]The GuardianAs an expert in the art of blurring lines, Stephen Adly Guirgis is known for projects that are at once comically poignant and dramatically raucous. Following the recently rehabilitated drug dealer Jackie, trying to...
| Автор | Stephen Adly Guirgis |
"A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile… The marvel of Mr. Eno’s voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes—‘Don’t ever change,’ ‘Who knows’—are turned inside out or twisted into blunt, unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily...
| Автор | Will Eno |
Dié drama, ’n liries en droomagtige maar tegelyk ook skreiend pynlike stuk oor herinnering en ongeregtigheid, is reeds in 1978 geskryf, in die hoogbloei van apartheid en twee jaar ná die Soweto-opstand. Dit is etlike kere opgevoer, maar word nou die eerste keer gepubliseer. Dit is in wese ’n versetdrama, maar die artistieke krag en durende relevansie daarvan lê in die wyse waarop dit wys hoe pynlik intiem verset en lojaliteit verstrengel is. Goree word gesien as Small se mees persoonlike...
| Автор | Adam Small |
Uit die flenters van oorloë smous Priscilla vir haar en haar familie ʼn lewe aanmekaar. 'n Gemeenskap op die Kaapse Vlakte bloei op die snypunt van politieke ordes, bende-base en godsdiensleiers. Soms is daar eilandjies vrede, soos in enige goeie oorlog. Maar oorlog is soos liefde: dit sal ʼn pad vind. En solank die bloeddruk klop, sal Priscilla se smokkelhandel oorleef, in die kantlyn van die geskiedenis. Amy Jephta se epiese teaterstuk vertel die verhaal van ʼn gemeenskap, ʼn verhaal veel...
| Автор | Amy Jephta |
Welcome to Miami. Home of the nation’s most notorious Haitian organization… It’s where Low and Rob, inner city teens from Lil Haiti, Florida, are small-time car thieves. They take part in an organized huge payout-carjacking scheme. Low and Rob do whatever is necessary to complete the deal, including stealing and committing murder. After attaining the required cars, Low and Rob cashes in, but not before Rob gets shot in the head. With a huge payoff, and his best friend out of...
| Автор | Pain |
Based on the true story of an Irish family with seven sons and one daughter immigrating to Biddulph Township near London, Ontario, in 1844, The Donnellys tells the tale of mystery and truths stranger than fiction. It is the story of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public, a story overlooked by the artistic community until Reaney’s play elevated the events to the level of legend. First published in 1975, this script takes its place among other true Canadian classics on...
| Автор | James Reaney |
Romancing the Bard offers a look at the Stratford Festival in its first fifty years as it developed from a bold venture driven by vision of a handful of eager enthusiasts to its present status as a multi-million dollar cultural and commercial enterprise. With profiles of Stratford personalities from founder Tyrone Guthrie to current artistic director Richard Monette, it provides glimpses of intrigue and conflict both offstage and on. The book traces the development of a distinctive Canadian...
| Автор | Martin Hunter |
A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine” (Gothic Studies). London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy. On its side were some of the finest actors on the English stage, in the shape of...
| Автор | Michael Wilson |
Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and challenging audiences in equal measure. Yet modern Scottish drama has a history of controversy, conflict and entertainment going back to the 1920s, notable at every turn for the vigour of its language...
| Автор | Cairns Craig |
Ogres, trolls, demons – monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is determined by her obsession with race, bloodlines and genetic determinism. The Susan Smith Tapes (made into a film for CBC and Showcase by Jeremy Podeswa) shows the...
| Автор | RM Vaughan |
Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, isn’t really a show; it’s an interactive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a dazzling whirl of talking streetcars, pizza and schizophrenia. And it’s hilarious. ...
| Автор | Darren O'Donnell |
It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her young lover, Miss Rhoda Nunn. But when the Misses Madden – spinsters Virginia and Alice...
| Автор | Linda Griffiths |
Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada’s most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising refuge, treatment and healing to millions of addicts. But all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, McArthur delivers a quirky and unsettling play that reveals the fear and isolation of the oppressed individual, and the...
| Автор | Greg MacArthur |
Beckett meets Betty Boop in this trilogy of monologues by Canadian cult heroine Pochsy, a nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen. In Pochsy's Lips, she's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because she's got a squid where her heart should be. In Oh Baby, she's at the Last Resort, on holiday from her job packing mercury. And in Citizen Pochsy, our little minx is in the waiting room at an audit from hell. In The Pochsy Plays, Hines remodels and melds traditions like...
| Автор | Karen Hines |
Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by Amiel Gladstone, introducing a wide range of fascinating characters and a formidable new voice in Canadian drama. In The Wedding Pool, three single friends in unsatisfactory jobs decide to place a bet on who will marry first. The friends – waitress and wannabe dancer Sylvia, rock critic Miles and inventory manager Dave – open a joint account to which they each contribute $50 a month, the final sum to be collected...
| Автор | Amiel Gladstone |
• World premiere in 2014 at Soho Rep (New York, Off-Broadway). Production sold out, extended, and was met with rave reviews. • Shared the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play with Appropriate, also written by Jacobs-Jenkins. • Based on An Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama by Irish writer Dion Boucicault. • Should be of interest to academic audiences interested in investigating race, ethnicity, discrimination and stereotypes. • Jacobs-Jenkins, 30 years old, is a rising star among young...
| Автор | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |
• World premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 2015, with a subsequent production produced by Arena Stage in Washington DC• Highly anticipated New York production coming this Fall, directed by Kate Whoriskey (Ruined)• Glowing review of OSF production in NY Times• Likely contender for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama• Made “The List,” an initiative begun by The Kilroys to promote women playwrights in the national theatre scene by listing the most highly recommended plays in...
| Автор | Lynn Nottage |
Premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in the spring of 2016<p><p> Selected as a <i>Time Out New York</i> Critics’ Pick<p><p> Washburn is a member of 13P and The Civilians, and a New Georges affiliated artist<p><p> Washburn has been commissioned by The Civilians, Soho Rep, the Williamstown Theater Festival, and Yale. <p><p> Her plays have been produced across the country and in London<p><p> One of the...
| Автор | Anne Washburn |
Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017. Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists. Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and for promoting social justice through her work. Morriseau’s plays often comment on racial, economic and social tensions. Morriseau grew up...
| Автор | Dominique Morisseau |
“Soul-searing… Eclipsed [/i]shines with a compassion that makes us see beyond the suffering to the indomitable humanity of its characters.” Charles Isherwood, New York Times [/i] [/i] “A major achievement… Eclipsed [/i]is shattering in part because, while the Liberian Civil War finally ended, the struggle continues in a ravished human landscape. We can do little more than bear witness—something this miraculous...
| Автор | Danai Gurira |
In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has created a unique and personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our recent history—a play diary for each day of the presidency, to capture and explore the events as they unfolded. Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Parks’s <em>100 Plays for the First Hundred Days</em> is...
| Автор | Suzan-Lori Parks |
Until the Flood is a New York Times Critic’s Pick Important and timely piece of documentary theatre written in response to Michael Brown’s death Orlandersmith won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play The Gimmick in 1999 She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Yellowman She also received a Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play for Yellowman Other honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant,...
| Автор | Dael Orlandersmith |
It is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of Washington Square; Carnegie Hall is designated for demolition; entire neighborhoods on the West Side are leveled to make room for a new «palace of art.» Meanwhile, a young Joe Papp and his colleagues face betrayals, self-inflicted wounds, and anger from the city’s powerful elite as they continue their free Shakespeare productions in Central Park.<p><p> From the...
| Автор | Richard Nelson |