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Author : Woodie King
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781617745942
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Author : Meg Swanson
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015043053837
A selection of plays by fifteen playwrights of color, each accompanied by a contextual essay that provides relevant historical, sociological, cultural, and historical backgrounds.
Author : Kathy A. Perkins,Roberta Uno
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415113784
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is a ground-breaking anthology of eighteen new and recent works by African American, Asian American, Latina American and Native American playwrights. This compelling collection includes works by award-winning and well-known playwrights such as Anna Deavere Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Pearl Cleage, Marga Gomez and Spiderwoman, as well as many exciting newcomers. Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is the first anthology to display such an abundance of talent from such a wide range of today's women playwrights. The plays tackle a variety of topics - from the playful to the painful - and represent numerous different approaches to playmaking. The volume also includes: * an invaluable appendix of published plays by women of color * biographical notes on each writer * the production history of each play Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is a unique resource for practitioners, students and lovers of theatre, and an inspiring addition to any bookshelf.
Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135866488
In the last 50 years, American and World theatre have been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas.
Author : Roberta Uno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1138189464
In the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially. In this second edition, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521668077
A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.
Author : Miles Liu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313011221
In the late nineteenth century, Asian American drama made its debut with the spotlight firmly on the lives and struggles of Asians in North America, rather than on the cultures and traditions of the Asian homeland. Today, Asian American playwrights continue to challenge the limitations of established theatrical conventions and direct popular attention toward issues and experiences that might otherwise be ignored or marginalized. While Asian American literature came into full bloom in the last 25 years, Asian American drama has yet to receive the kind of critical attention it warrants. This reference book serves as a versatile vehicle for exploring the field of Asian American drama from its recorded conception to its present stage. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 52 Asian American dramatists of origins from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and China. Each entry includes relevant biographical information that contextualizes the works of a playwright, an interpretive description of selected plays that spotlights recurring themes and plots, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. The entries are written by expert contributors and reflect the ethnic diversity of the Asian American community. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography, which includes anthologies, scholarly studies, and periodicals.
Author : Wakako Yamauchi
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781566390019
This anthology of work by three Asian American women playwrights—Wakako Yamauchi, Genny Lim, and Velina Hasu Houston—features pioneering contemporary writers who have made their mark in regional and ethnic theatres throughout the United States. In her introduction, Houston observes that the Asian American woman playwright is compelled "to mine her soul" and express the angst, fear, and rage that oppression has wrought while maintaining her relationship with America as a good citizen. The plays are rich with cultural and political substance and have a feminist concern about women's spirit, intellect, and lives. They portray Asian and Asian American women who challenge the cultural and sexual stereotypes of the Asian female. Yamauchi's two plays deal with how easily a country can dishonor its citizens. In "12-1-A," a Japanese American family is incarcerated during World War II in an Arizona camp where Yamauchi herself was interned. "The Chairman's Wife" dramatizes the life of Madame Mao Tse Tung through the lens of events at Tien An Men Square in 1989. Lim's "Bitter Cane" is about the exploitation of Chinese laborers who were recruited to work the Hawaiian sugar cane plantations. In "Asa Ga Kimashita" ("Morning Has Broken"), Houston explores a Japanese woman's interracial romance in postwar Japan and the influence of traditional patriarchy on the lives of Japanese women. These plays will entertain and enlighten, enrage and profoundly move audiences. With honesty, imagination and courage, each grapples with the politics of life. In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ.
Author : Donatella Galella
Publisher : Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609386252
More than a chronicle, America in the Round is a critical history that reveals how far Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage could go with its budget and racially liberal politics, and how Arena both disputed and duplicated systems of power. With an innovative "in the round" approach, the narrative simulates sitting in different parts of the arena space to see the theatre through different lenses--economics, racial dynamics, and American identity.
Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573706813
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.
Author : Beatrix Taumann
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American dramatists
ISBN : 3826016815
Author : Joan Herrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781136542121
August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.
Author : Dorinne Kondo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002420
In this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly analyze theater's work of creativity as theory: acting, writing, dramaturgy. Race-making occurs backstage in the creative process and through economic forces, institutional hierarchies, hiring practices, ideologies of artistic transcendence, and aesthetic form. For audiences, the arts produce racial affect--structurally over-determined ways affect can enhance or diminish life. Upending genre through scholarly interpretation, vivid vignettes, and Kondo's original play, Worldmaking journeys from an initial romance with theater that is shattered by encounters with racism, toward what Kondo calls reparative creativity in the work of minoritarian artists Anna Deavere Smith, David Henry Hwang, and the author herself. Worldmaking performs the potential for the arts to remake worlds, from theater worlds to psychic worlds to worldmaking visions for social transformation.
Author : Hans Ostrom,J. David Macey Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216043034
This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.
Author : Andrew Gibb
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817370169
Papers solicited from the presenters for the cancelled 2020 Southeastern Theatre Conference.
