Political Stages: Plays That Shaped a Century

by Emily Mann, David Roessel

Overview

Warning: These plays do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes into the streets. These are the plays which either lit or reflected thefires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individually, each is a molotov cocktail tossed onto the stage, each a political movement encapsulated in dramatic form. Never before, however, have they been collected in one explosive volume. In Political Stages, they have at last been preserved, ever ready to serve at the barricades of subsequent eras.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476847757
Publisher:	Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	632
File size:	949 KB

Table of Contents

	Preface
	Introduction
	The Film Society	1
	Trifles	65
	Mulatto: A Tragedy of the Deep South	87
	Dutchman	131
	Funnyhouse of a Negro	161
	Slavs!	185
	Open Admissions	239
	Execution of Justice	255
	Waiting for Lefty	345
	And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens ...	389
	Not About Nightingales	419
	Another American: Asking and Telling	539
	Contributors	619

Editorial Reviews

Selected for their political relevance to American life as well as their dramatic success, 11 plays, written over the past 80 years, comment on the "American Century." The plays were also selected for comparative purposes, so that works stemming from journalism or those dealing with issues such as race, gender, and ideology could be examined together. Works by Jon Robin Baitz, LeRoi Jones, Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tony Kushner, Shirley Lauro, Emily Mann, Clifford Odets, and Marc Wolf are included. An inclusion that might be of particular interest is , a previously unpublished play by Tennessee Williams. Each play is prefaced with an explanatory introduction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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