Wilson Plays: 2

Wilson Plays: 2
Author: Snoo Wilson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408148404

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
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822216285

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.
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822213901

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
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1990
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN: 9780822200734

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

Book of Days

Book of Days
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822217671

THE STORY: When murder roars through a small Missouri town, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mys

The Ground on which I Stand

The Ground on which I Stand
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781559361873

August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson
Author: Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603292608

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.

August Wilson's Twentieth-century Cycle Plays

August Wilson's Twentieth-century Cycle Plays
Author: Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

"A literary guide examining the life of August Wilson and the themes, settings, and characters of his ten twentieth-century Cycle Plays"--

August Wilson

August Wilson
Author: Alan Nadel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-05-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1587299356

Contributors to this collection of 15 essays are academics in English, theater, and African American studies. They focus on the second half of Wilson's century cycle of plays, examining each play within the larger context of the cycle and highlighting themes within and across particular plays. Some topics discussed include business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the Ocean, contesting black male responsibilities in Jitney, the holyistic blues of Seven Guitars, violence as history lesson in Seven Guitars and King Hedley II, and ritual death and Wilson's female Christ. The book offers an index of plays, critics, and theorists, but not a subject index. Nadel is chair of American literature and culture at the University of Kentucky.