Myth, Magic, and Farce: Four Multicultural Plays

ISBN-13: 9781574411874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 128 str.

Sterling Houston; Sandra M. Mayo

Opis

Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality. Despite many successful productions, his work has never before been widely available in print. The four plays in this collection represent Houston s full range of themes and styles. "High ""Yello"" Ros""e" deflates the Alamo myth by casting the heroes parts entirely with women. "Isis in ""Nubia" is a love story that sets the Isis/Osiris myth in West Africa. "Black Lily and White Lily" is a realistic domestic drama exploring racial tensions. "Miranda Rites" returns to Houston s broadly farcical style, enacting Martha Mitchell s last days in a hospital, where she hallucinates about Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, and is escorted to the underworld by Carmen Miranda."