Yasmine Beverly Rana s "The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays" followsjourneys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabul. The charactersin Rana s politically charged and moving plays attempt to seek and sustain love in violent circumstances.
In the title play, "The War Zone is My Bed," a prostitute from Kabul and a journalist from Bosniastumble through a maze of brutality to find solace withineach other. In "Blood Sky" a traumatic event is triggered by a...
Yasmine Beverly Rana s "The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays" followsjourneys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Missi...
This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, anddisplacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups and still seeking to establish democracy and human rights.
The title play, Mustafa Kaplan s "Solum," deals with questions of home and identity as explored through physical research on the performer s body. Other plays included are Murathan Mungan s "As on the...
This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and...
The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa s "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays "explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease.In one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders emotionally (as in "Awakening"), physically (as in "Comet Hunter") or socially (as in "Broken Morning"), and the line that separates life and death is thin.""In the title play, a woman in New...
The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa s "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays "explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine po...
By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work. Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays are joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection, grave wit, and heroic survival. The centerpiece of this collection, "Instructions for Breathing," is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation on responsibility and parenthood that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a child as Svich s characters do, but also to...
By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-bre...
An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama," Loose Screws"brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individual and social violence impinge upon one another, disrupt notions of a monolithic Polish identity, and try to find meaning within the post-9/11 global context. This comprehensive collection offers an account of Polish history and politics though plays that range in subject from communism to mental illness, criminal and social violence, and...
An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama," Loose Screws"brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights wh...
Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesses of consumer culture. This first anthology of his dramatic work made available in English collects seven of his most impressive and outspoken plays. How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients is the central piece of the collection and is a satire of Stalinism that unmasks limitless political power, the fascination with...
Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of ...
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature was finally recognized in 2004 with the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The committee acknowledged Jelinek s groundbreaking work that offers a musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society s cliches and their subjugating power. Although...
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and ...
Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zabrudzenia. Wygląda jak książka, którą wypożyczasz w bibliotece. By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work. Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays are joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection, grave wit, and heroic survival. The centerpiece of this...
Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zab...
