Testimonies

Testimonies
Author: Emily Mann
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559361170

The first major collection by playwright Emily Mann contains four powerful docudramas. Based on extensive interviews of real people's experiences, these plays explore various moral issues and questions that still resonate in America today. Annulla: An Autobiography is a solo piece featuring the reflections of an elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by pretending to by Aryan. Jerry Talmer of the New York Post calls Annulla "one bangup 90 minutes of theatre...I don't know when I've been stimulated as much by anything on the living stage." Still Life is composed of interviews with a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, the pregnant wife he physically and emotionally abuses, and the mistress who finds herself entranced by his passion and violence. This Obie Award-winning play is "a powerful affair, full of passion and viability...Mann offers no easy answers or pat solutions, she simply invites us into these three characters' lives" (Los Angeles Times). Execution of Justice follows the trial of the former policeman who shot San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. Called "thought-provoking...a taut courtroom drama" (New York Times), Execution of Justice "is theatre reasserting its claim on the country's moral conscience" (Washington Post). Greensboro: A Requiem is "a particularly all-American tragedy" (New York Times) as Mann interviews those involved in the largely unreported 1979 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Greensboro police force, and FBI. Forbes calls Greensboro "a provocation, a potent expos of the 'less-than-human thing' which fuels the politics of hate and injustice in America."

Four Plays

Four Plays
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Signet
Total Pages: 491
Release: 1976
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780451525123

This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.

Four Plays

Four Plays
Author: Lawrence Jeffery
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1992
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781550960853

Five Lesbian Brothers/four Plays

Five Lesbian Brothers/four Plays
Author: Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe)
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559361668

This book collects all the full-length work by this New York-based theater collective, including "The Secretaries, Brave Smiles, Brides of the Moon, " and Voyage to Lesbos." 25 photos.

The Plays of W. B. Yeats

The Plays of W. B. Yeats
Author: S. Ellis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349272248

This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly 'Noh' Theatre with its central dance. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in influencing Yeats's drama, and his interest in the 'dance-as-meaning' debate places him firmly not only in his time but also in our own.

Four Plays

Four Plays
Author: Copi
Publisher: Calder Publications
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780714549668