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Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent racist on campus forces Sarah, along with other faculty members and students, to explore her feelings about racism, leading to surprising discoveries and painful insights that will rivet and provoke the reader as perhaps no play since David Mamet's Oleanna has done.
Spinning into Butter had its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in May 1999 and will open at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York in April 2000.
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Review:
"Splendid . . . A play of blistering force . . . [Gilman] is poised to have a major impact on the American theater." --Chris Jones, "Variety"
"An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent, and candid new play... by a writer of surprising gifts." --Richard Christiansen, "Chicago Tribune"
About the Author:
"An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent, and candid new play... by a writer of surprising gifts." --Richard Christiansen, "Chicago Tribune"
Splendid . . . A play of blistering force . . . [Gilman] is poised to have a major impact on the American theater. "Chris Jones, Variety"
An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent, and candid new play... by a writer of surprising gifts. "Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune""
Splendid . . . A play of blistering force . . . [Gilman] is poised to have a major impact on the American theater. Chris Jones, Variety
An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent, and candid new play... by a writer of surprising gifts. Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune
""Splendid . . . A play of blistering force . . . [Gilman] is poised to have a major impact on the American theater." --Chris Jones, Variety
"An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent, and candid new play... by a writer of surprising gifts." --Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune
Rebecca Gilman was born in Trussville, Alabama, a small town outside Birmingham. She briefly attended Middlebury College in Vermont in the early 1980s and has lived in Chicago since 1994, after she received a graduate degree in theater from the University of Iowa.
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- PublisherTandem Library
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1417716614
- ISBN 13 9781417716616
- BindingHardcover
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