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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
Author: Harry Justin Elam
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-05-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472021842

Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).

Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0593087623

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.

August Wilson

August Wilson
Author: Laurence A. Glasco
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996937207

August Wilson is one of America's great playwrights. He lived in Pittsburgh from his birth in 1945 to 1978, when he moved to St. Paul, MN, and later to Seattle, WA. He died in 2005 and is buried in Pittsburgh.Wilson composed 10 plays chronicling the African American experience in each decade of the twentieth century--and he set nine of those plays in Pittsburgh's Hill District. He turned the history of a place into great theater. His plays, including Fences, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf have become classics of the American stage.August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays guides visitors to key sites in the playwright's life and work in the Hill District and beyond. This guidebook enriches the understanding of those who have seen or read his plays, inspires others to do so, and educates all to the importance of respecting, caring for, and preserving the Pittsburgh places that shaped, challenged, and nurtured August Wilson's rich, creative legacy.