Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays (Vintage Original)

Orlandersmith, Dael

ISBN 10: 0375708715 / ISBN 13: 9780375708718

Edité par Vintage, 2000

N° de réf. du vendeur ZBV.0375708715.LN

Synopsis :

The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds.

In the Obie Award-winning play "Beauty's Daughter," Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled aspirations in drugs and alcohol. In "Monster," Theresa imagines a life in the rock-'n'-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan's Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem, where she is scorned as a misfit. And in "The Gimmick," Alexis escapes her brutal reality among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming a writer in Paris. Charged with fearless wisdom, these three electrifying plays transform rage-filled ghetto experience into a triumph of rhapsodic expression.

À propos de l'auteur: Dael Orlandersmith lives in New York City. She won an Obie award in 1995 for "Beauty's Daughter."

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: ...
Éditeur : Vintage
Date d'édition : 2000
Reliure : Couverture souple
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