Anna in the Tropics

Author: Nilo Cruz
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458781240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new ''lector (who reads Tolstoys Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Author: Joanna Cannon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501121901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong.

Sylvia

Author: Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214960
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
A romantic comedy on midlife relationships and a pet dog.

Sheep and Goat

Author: Marleen Westera
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425819
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Sheep and Goat have heated discussions about everything from earthly affairs to Goat's birthday and Sheep's family. Sheep and Goat know what matters in life.

Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004394710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator offers eight essays and a major interview by important scholars in the field that explore this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist. They consider not only Albee’s award-winning plays and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama, but also his important influence to the American theatre as a whole, his connections to art and music, and his international influence in Spanish and Russian theatre. Contributors: Jackson R. Bryer, Milbre Burch, David A. Crespy, Ramon Espejo-Romero, Nathan Hedman, Lincoln Konkle, Julia Listengarten, David Marcia, Ashley Raven, Parisa Shams, Valentine Vasak

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee

Author: Stephen Bottoms
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521834551
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.

Finding the Sun

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213277
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
THE STORY: Running into each other at the beach, Cordelia and Abigail do all they can to hide their dislike for one another, probably because their husbands, Daniel and Benjamin, aren't doing so well at hiding the fact that they themselves were once in love before ever deciding to marry Cordelia and Abigail instead. Gertrude and Henden (Daniel and Cordelia's parents by previous marriages) play witness to their step-childrens' passions which inevitably excite their own, despite their age. Gertrude acts upon her lusty curiosity by investigating what she imagines to be a sexual relationship between Edmee and Fergus, a mother and son whom she meets at the beach that day. Henden, in his own time, approaches the sixteen-year-old Fergus and finds himself answering the boy's discomforting questions about the nature of Daniel and Benjamin's past relationship. All together, these chance meetings and forays into frankness offer a kaleidoscopic view of passion which spans all the ages of man and woman and all the varieties of love we know.

Counting the Ways and Listening

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822202424
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
THE STORIES: COUNTING THE WAYS. In a series of blackout sketches, He and She probe into the nature of their love for one another. Long married, but aware that time has wrought changes in their relationship, the two spar and thrust at each other

Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 0822223171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets...[Ives] add The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty...in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama...a piercing portrait of the contemporary social architecture, in which the distance between people can be widened or collaps

Edward Albee's Occupant

Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573663807
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
New York sculptor Louise Nevelson's life was marked by intrepid triumphs and deep inner turmoil. Both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. The result is a touching, humorous, and honest tribute to a woman who was a pioneer for free-thinking females everywhere, but also stood on her own as one of the 20th century's greatest artistic minds.