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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
ISBN: 9780684843261 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered...
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winn...
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Dutchman and the Slave: Two Plays
ISBN: 9780688210847 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and exceptionally powerful voice to the American theatre. Dutchman opened in New York City on March 24, 1964, to perhaps the most excited acclaim ever accorded an off-Broadway production and shortly thereafter received the Village Voice's Obie Award. The Slave, which was produced off-Broadway the... Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, i... |
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The America Play and Other Works
ISBN: 9781559360920 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "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
"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myt...
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Venus
ISBN: 9781559361354 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called -Hottentot Venus, - an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death. Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called -Hottentot Venus, - an African w... |
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Flyin' West and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781559361682 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Pearl Cleage is a passionate, challenging playwright whose concerns for the species are unmistakable and profound. As a woman, as an African-American, her artistic objectivity and sensitivity to history combine with, but do not overshadow, her capacity to dig for truth and present it flat out as she sees it - with a finger snap or a shout and sometimes with a wink. Among the most satisfying roles I've undertaken on stage is surely Miss Leah in Flyin' West. She brings the bushel nuggets of drama and humor that capture the ear, the heart and the imagination. She's devilish, too.-... -Pearl Cleage is a passionate, challenging playwright whose concerns for the species are unmistakable and profound. As a woman, as an African-Amer... |
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The Red Letter Plays
ISBN: 9781559361958 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with -a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.'---Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
The playwright who -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 ... -In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthor...
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Topdog/Underdog
ISBN: 9781559362016 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including "In the Blood" and "Venus." She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the... A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the... |
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King Hedley II
ISBN: 9781559362603 / Angielski / Miękka / 103 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eighth work in playwright August Wilson's ten-play cycle chronicling the history of the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century, "King Hedley II" is set in 1985 and tells the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life.
The eighth work in playwright August Wilson's ten-play cycle chronicling the history of the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th cen...
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Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
ISBN: 9781559362795 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Intimate Apparel "Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance."--Charles Isherwood, Variety Fabulation "Robustly entertaining comedy . . . with punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times With her two latest... "Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity ... |
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67,28 |
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Gem of the Ocean
ISBN: 9781559362801 / Angielski / Miękka / 85 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."--John Lahr, The New Yorker "A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times "Wilson's juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom."--Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Gem of the Ocean is the play... "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."--John Lahr, The Ne... |
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Gem of the Ocean: 1904
ISBN: 9781559362818 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one except perhaps Eugene O Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater. John Lahr, The New Yorker A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson s career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written. Ben Brantley, The New York Times Wilson s juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Gem of the Ocean is the play that... No one except perhaps Eugene O Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater. John Lahr, The New ... |
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365 Days/365 Plays
ISBN: 9781559362863 / Angielski / Miękka / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.---Tony Kushner -The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the 'weather.' It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life.---Suzan-Lori Parks On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a... -Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.---Tony Kushner -The plan was that no matter what I did, how bu... |
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Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theater from the Hip Hop Generation
ISBN: 9781559362924 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of theater created by and for the Hip Hop generation.
An anthology of theater created by and for the Hip Hop generation.
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The Piano Lesson: 1936
ISBN: 9781559363006 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Radio Golf
ISBN: 9781559363082 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The concluding work in one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken . . . a play that could well be Mr. Wilson's most provocative.---Ben Brantley, The New York Times -Radio Golf is a rich, carefully wrought human tapestry that is colorful, playful, thoughtful and compelling.---Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter Radio Golf is August Wilson's final play. Set in 1990 Pittsburgh, it is the conclusion of his Century Cycle--Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the African American experience throughout the twentieth century--and is the last play... -The concluding work in one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken . . . a play that could well be Mr. Wilson's most provocative.-... |
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Talk Radio (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559363242 / Angielski / Miękka / 63 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know." -John Hellpern, New York Observer "Gut-grabbing... the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting." -Ben Brantley, New York Times "More timely today than it was twenty years ago... Radio crackles with intensity." -Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News "Hypnotic Both as an actor's tour-de-force and a stinging cultural analysis." -David Rooney, Variety This is the fully revised version...
"Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know." -John Hellpern, New York Obs...
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Gee's Bend
ISBN: 9780573663673 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1m, 3f / Drama / Simple set Gee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the real community of Gee's Bend, AL, which is now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there. Gospel songs weave in and out of this hauntingly beautiful work. "Gee's Bend is a lovefest -- between the characters in the play and the land they live on, between the actors and the characters they're portraying, between the play and the audience." -Orlando Sentinel "Touching, lovely, and true." -Chicago Sun-Times
1m, 3f / Drama / Simple set Gee's Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans in the 20th century by focusing on a single family in the re...
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Bulrusher
ISBN: 9780573663130 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant, Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even among the strange. Just when she thinks her world might close in on her, she discovers an entirely new sense of self when a black girl from Alabama comes to town.
Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant, Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amo...
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Ruined (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559363556 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports. Linda Winer, Newsday An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won t expect. David Cote, Time Out New York A rain forest bar and brothel in the... Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important... |
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The Brother/Sister Plays
ISBN: 9781559363495 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -McCraney's richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice.---The New York Times -Taut, expressive drama, The Brothers Size realizes the potential of theater to elevate the ordinary. . . . McCraney's writing can be arresting.---Time Out New York This is the first collection by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a major new playwright of the American theater.... -McCraney's richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you ... |
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