Clybourne Park

Author : Bruce Norris
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822226970
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clybourne Park written by Bruce Norris and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clybourne Park" spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberrys "A Raisin in the Sun") and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on? Bruce Norriss excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing satire explores the fault line between race and property. "Clybourne Park" is the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.

Author : Bruce Norris
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 : 9781848421783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clybourne Park written by Bruce Norris and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed for a knock-down price, enabling the first black family to move into the neighbourhood and alarming the cosy white urbanites of Clybourne Park, Chicago. In 2009 the same property is being bought by Lindsey and Steve, a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with a similar response. As the arguments rage and tensions rise, ghosts and racial resentments are once more uncovered... Bruce Norris's play Clybourne Park was first performed at Playwrights Horizons, New York City, in February 2010. The play received its European premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2010, transferring to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End in February 2011. The play received numerous awards, including the London Evening Standard Award for Best Play, the Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, the Olivier Award for Best New Play, the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807444
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781474260947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1950s Chicago, 'A Raisin in the Sun' is a classic play about a black family's struggle for equality, and the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.

Author : Bruce Norris
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124971
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pain and the Itch written by Bruce Norris and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay and Kelly live in an expensive modern home with their four-year old daughter Kayla and new baby. They're desperately trying to do everything "right" and to hold the "right" opinions. But when Kayla acquires a hypodermic and a nasty rash in a sensitive place, they jump to conclusions. A social satire about liberal hypocrisy.

Author : Rebecca Ann Rugg
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128136
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun written by Rebecca Ann Rugg and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun.

Author : Lydia R. Diamond
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573700923
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stick Fly written by Lydia R. Diamond and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2013 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective ladies home to meet the parents for the first time. Kent’s fiancée, Taylor, an academic whose absent father was a prominent author, struggles to fit into the LeVay’s upper-crust lifestyle. Kimber, on the other hand, is a self-described WASP who works with inner-city school children, fits in more easily with the family. Joining these two couples are the demanding LeVay patriarch, Joe, and Cheryl, the daughter of the family’s longtime housekeeper. As the two newcomers butt heads over issues of race and privilege, long-standing family tensions bubble under the surface and reach a boiling point when secrets are revealed.

Author : Bruce Norris
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822239078
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Low Road written by Bruce Norris and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned as an infant, Jim Trewitt finds little affection for anyone or anything, except his own self-advancement. After a chance encounter with Adam Smith, Jim decides to put his faith in the free market, becoming America’s first laissez-faire capitalist. Soon his path to riches becomes entangled with that of an educated slave, who knows from experience that one person’s profit is another’s loss. From Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris comes an epic parable about the cost of inequality.

Author : David Lindsay-Abaire
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366125
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbit Hole (movie tie-in) written by David Lindsay-Abaire and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize-winning play is now a major motion picture.

Author : Nicky Silver
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559367261
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lyons written by Nicky Silver and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comedy nirvana . . . satisfyingly mean and funny."—New York Post "Without sacrificing his mordant wit or bleak worldview, this distinctive dramatist shows a new maturity and empathy in."?The New York Times "Nicky Silver's terrific play is filled with moments when you can't stop laughing even though the circumstances indicate you really shouldn't. . . . A wonderful little riff on family dysfunction."?Associated Press "Silver finds plenty of fresh bite, and the sheer savagery of his observation here is breathtaking. Watching it brings the dueling sensations of wicked mirth and squirming discomfort at being trapped in the hell of someone else's family horrors. That these are exaggerations of our own is what gives the play its teeth."—The Hollywood Reporter This vicious, hilarious black comedy opened on Broadway in April 2012 to rave reviews. Nicky Silver, that "strange progeny of a coupling between Mr. Neil Simon and Edward Albee" (The New York Times), has cornered the market on deliciously savage dysfunctional family comedies. Following an acclaimed run Off-Broadway, this intimate and frightening examination of how we cope with loneliness and disappointment currently delights audiences on Broadway. Rita Lyons is the matriarch of a family facing a major crossroads. Her husband, Ben, is dying and her grown children are struggling. As the family gathers in Ben's hospital room, they discover that they're as terrified of being together as they are of being alone.