Sherman Plays

Martin Sherman

ISBN 10: 0413773744 / ISBN 13: 9780413773746

Published by BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND Dez 2003, 2003

Neuware - Includes 'Cracks, Bent, Messiah' and 'Rose'. Seller Inventory # 9780413773746

Synopsis:

The first collection by a seminal contemporary gay playwright

Bent (1979): "A heroic myth . . . It has the laughter which Yeats asserted lay at the heart of tragedy." (Listener) "It is . . . a play of importance, power and pathos which should concern us all." (Guardian) The play follows the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. It received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won The Dramatists' Guild Hull-Warriner Award.

Cracks (1973): a comedy set in the gay scene in California of the 70s where an assassin is on the loose.

Messiah (1982) is a moving drama about the life of a small Jewish community in the 17th century.

Rose (1999): Rose is a survivor of the Warsaw ghettos. She arrives on the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami beach. The play is sharply drawn reminder of some of the events that shaped the century.

About the Author: Martin Sherman was born in Philadelphia, educated at Boston University and now lives in London. His early plays include Passing By, Cracks and Rio Grande, all originally presented by Playwrights Horizons in New York. Bent premiered at the Royal Court in 1979, transferred to the Criterion Theatre and was then presented on Broadway, where it received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won the Dramatist Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. Bent has been produced in over forty-five countries, and has been turned into a ballet in Brazil, and, in 1989, was revived at the National Theatre. It has been voted one of the NT2000 One Hundred Plays of the Century. His next plays were Messiah (Hampstead and Aldwych Theatres, 1983), When She Danced (King's Head, 1988; Gielgud, 1991), A Madhouse in Goa (Lyric Hammersmith and Apollo, 1989), Some Sunny Day (Hampstead, 1996) and Rose (National Theatre, 1999). Rose received an Olivier nomination for Best Play and transferred to Broadway the following season. Sherman has written an adaptation of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India for Shared Experience (Riverside Studios, 2002; Lyric Hammersmith, 2004) and a new version of a Luigi Pirandello play, Absolutely! (Perhaps) (Wyndhams, 2003) He has also written the book for the musical The Boy From Oz which opened on Broadway in 2003. His screenplays include The Clothes in the Wardrobe (US title: The Summer House), Alive and Kicking, Bent, Callas Forever and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Martin Sherman Plays: One was published by Methuen Drama in 2004.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sherman Plays
Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND Dez 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu