The Invisible Hand - Couverture souple

Akhtar, Ayad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 135028405X ISBN 13 : 9781350284050

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2021

Synopsis

A newly revised edition of Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar's play about the nature of greed which pits the pervasive philosophy of capitalism against Islamic fanaticism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Ayad is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), which The Washington Post called "a tour de force" and The New York Times selected as a Top 10 Book of 2020, calling it "pitch-perfect.virtuosic." Ayad is adapting Homeland Elegies into a limited series at FX, with director Oren Moverman and staring Kumail Nanjiani. His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages. As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations).

Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwrighting Award, the Nestroy Award, the Erwin Piscator Award, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at New York Theatre Workshop and PEN America, where he serves as President.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 135028405X
• ISBN 13: 9781350284050
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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