Wilson Plays: 2
Wilson Plays: 2

Author: Snoo Wilson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1408148404

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A second collection of plays from one of Britain's most original dramatists This second volume of plays includes Vampire: 'The height of comedy, a manic, hellzapoppin of invention, sliding from verbal frolics to pure slapstick' (The Times); The Glad Hand: 'A full-blooded theatrical experience which is also - praise be - good fun to watch. Its energetic, imaginative nonsense spills out ideas, situations, crises, comedy and political harangue in a fire-work display of non-sequitur, whiz-bang high spirits' (Sunday Telegraph); The Grass Widow: 'Hilariously confirms that Mr Wilson is the liveliest and most enlivening English dramatists of his generation' (Sunday Telegraph); Sabina: A typically surreal and unrestrained work ... wonderfully theatrical.' (Tribune) "Snoo Wilson tackles dark pockets of human endeavour with an original wit and a savage humour" (Financial Times).

Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson

Author: Lanford Wilson

Publisher: Smith & Kraus

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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A collection of plays by Lanford Wilson that demonstrate how his writing style has changed from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Ludlow Fair and Home Free!
Ludlow Fair and Home Free!

Author: Lanford Wilson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780822216285

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THE STORIES: LUDLOW FAIR. In words of the Village Voice, this ...is a bedtime story about two girl roommates. Rachel is glamorous, fast-living, sometimes lost in her own self-dramatizations; Agnes is plain, matter-of-fact, her shyness masked by a kooky per

Four Short Plays
Four Short Plays

Author: Lanford Wilson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780822213901

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THE STORIES: FOREIGN BODIES centers around a mother and daughter who, after a lifetime of miscommunication, are able to connect in the unlikeliest of ways. Rise, a young woman in her early 30s, impulsively joins a Jewish Sacred Burial Society. By d

As is
As is

Author: William M. Hoffman

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822200734

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THE STORY: The time is now, the place New York City. Rich, a young writer who is beginning to find success, is breaking up with his longtime lover, Saul, a professional photographer. The split is particularly difficult for Saul, who still loves Ric

Burn this
Burn this

Author: Lanford Wilson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822216254

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THE STORY: The place is a Manhattan loft shared by Anna, a lithe young dancer-choreographer, and her two gay roommates--her collaborator, Robby, who has just been killed in a freak boating accident, and Larry, a world-weary, caustically funny young adverti

Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson
Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

Author: Sandra G. Shannon

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1603292608

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The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance practices in dialogue with canonical writers like Aristotle and Shakespeare. As they portray black Americans living through migration, industrialization, and war, Wilson's plays explore the relation between a unified black consciousness and America's collective identity. In part 1 of this volume, "Materials," the editors survey sources on Wilson's biography, teachable texts of Wilson's plays, useful secondary readings, and compelling audiovisual and Web resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," look at a diverse set of issues in Wilson's work, including the importance of blues and jazz, intertextual connections to other playwrights, race in performance, Yoruban spirituality, and the role of women in the plays.

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

Author: Harry J. Elam

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-05-21

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0472021842

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Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).

The Ground on which I Stand
The Ground on which I Stand

Author: August Wilson

Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781559361873

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August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Fences
Fences

Author: August Wilson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0593087585

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From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.