Our lady of 121st Street ; Jesus hopped the A train and ; In Arabia, we'd all be kings / Stephen Adly Guirgis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guirgis, Stephen Adly.

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Jesus hopped the A train

In Arabia, we'd all be kings

Place of Publication:

New York : Faber and Faber, 2003.

Summary:

"An important new playwright has arrived." --The New Yorker Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit," Our Lady of 121st Street, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama" Jesus Hopped the A Train and" In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, an" Iceman Cometh for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.

Notes:

Three plays.

Contains:

Guirgis, Stephen Adly. Jesus hopped the A train. 2003.

Guirgis, Stephen Adly. In Arabia, we'd all be kings. 2003.

ISBN:

0571211887

OCLC:

53810655