Front lines : political plays by American women / Alexis Greene, Shirley Lauro, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greene, Alexis.

Lauro, Shirley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political plays, American.

American drama--Women authors.

American drama.

American drama--21st century.

Physical Description:

xix, 378 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2009.

Summary:

Front Lines is a collection of seven brilliant, critically acclaimed plays-each a dazzling dramatic work by a leading contemporary woman playwright. Together they tackle some of the toughest issues of the day-from war and reproductive rights to the crises in our prisons, courts, and public schools-and are by turns provocative, moving, and inspiring.

Among the plays is Jessica Blank's riveting and widely heralded The Exonerated (written with Erik Jensen) based on interviews with American prisoners incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Also included is Nilaja Sun's outstanding No Child ... winner of the Outer Critics Circle's 2007 John Gassner Award for Best New Play-a funny, stirring one-woman play centering on an inner-city teacher's success at involving her rebellious students in their own education by putting on a play. Also featured in the collection are Emily Mann's Mrs. Packard, Paula Vogel's Hot'n' Throbbing, Shirley Lauro's Clarence Darrow's Last Trial, Quiara Alegria Hudes's Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, and Cindy Cooper's Words of Choice.

With a preface by distinguished playwright Shirley Lauro, an introduction by theater critic and historian Alexis Greene, and a foreword by Julie Crosby, artistic director, the Women's Project, New York City, Front Lines also includes short biographies of the playwrights and a production photo of each play.

Contents:

The exonerated / by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

Words of choice / by Cindy Cooper, co-adapted with Suzanne Bennett

Elliot, a soldier's fugue / by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Clarence Darrow's last trial / by Shirley Lauro

Mrs. Packard / by Emily Mann

No child ... / by Nilaja Sun

Hot 'n' throbbing / by Paula Vogel.

ISBN:

9781595584243

1595584242

OCLC:

286490568