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First published in 2003.
A collection of fifty audition speeches for women selected from the finest plays of the last twenty years. The selections come from mainstream contemporary classics and important emerging work. Many of the playwrights represented here have received critical acclaim on both sides…
First published in 2003.
"This collection of contemporary post-colonial plays demonstrates the vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. Dealing with imperialism and its aftermath, the plays use a wide range of dramaturgical techniques drawn from W…
"This collection of contemporary post-colonial plays demonstrates the vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. Dealing with imperialism and its aftermath, the plays use a wide range of dramaturgical techniques drawn from W…
Before her death at age thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry revolutionized American drama with plays that presented the black experience directly, unapologetically, and often with anger. Her work shook the complacency of white audiences even as it laid the ground for subsequent deba…
Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers'--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson. From the Trade Paperbac…
How has the media, beginning with the Persian Gulf War, altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Jeanne Colleran examines more than forty plays, most of which were written in direct response to the emergent New World Orde…
This text explores the effects of mediatization on the public sphere and on the nature of interventionary art, it looks specifically at issues attached to the war in Iraq: censorship, torture, detention, representations of Muslim identity, race, class, and gender issues in the a…