Political Stages: Plays That Shaped a Century (Applause Books) - Softcover

Emily Mann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557834903 ISBN 13: 9781557834904

Publisher: Applause, 2002

Synopsis

Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires 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. Combined, they constitute both a conflagration and a record of American political and theatrical ideology. 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. Includes works by Tennessee Williams, Emily Mann, Clifford Odets, Langston Hughes, and others.

About this title

Synopsis:

Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays that got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rolled down the corridors of power and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. Plays include: The Dutchman (Amiri Baraka); Trifles (Susan Glaspell); Funny House of a Negro (Adrienne Kennedy); Open Admissions (Shirley Lauro); Waiting for Lefty (Clifford Odets); The Film Society (Jon Robin Baitz); Mulatto (Langston Hughes); Slavsl (Tony Kushner); Execution of Justice (Emily Mann); Not About Nightingales (Tennessee Williams)

About the Author:

Emily Mann's numerous awards for artistic excellence include a Guggenheim, a Playwrights Fellowship and Artistic Associate Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Theatre. In recognition of her achievements illuminating the possibilities for social, cultural and political change, she was awarded the Lee Reynolds Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Applause
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1557834903
• ISBN 13: 9781557834904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632