Methuen drama anthology of American women playwrights : 1970-2020 / Wesley Brown & Aimée K. Michel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yankowitz, Susan, author.

Contributor:

Brown, Wesley, 1945- editor.

Michel, Aimée K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Drama.

Murder.

Violent crimes--United States--Drama.

Violent crimes.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

First edition

Contained In:

Methuen drama anthology of American women playwrights.

Other Title:

Also known as: Knife in the heart

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

System Details:

text file

HTML

Summary:

"A KNIFE IN THE HEART/GUN opens with a mother's nightmare about the future of her newborn son. In a series of biting, fragmented scenes that move backwards and forwards in time, her nightmare comes true. The play was inspired by the escalating acts of violence in our country -- mass school shootings, assassinations, serial killings - carried out usually by young white men from middle-class families. Again and again, we ask why? Where does responsibility lie? What leads a loved child like Donald to commit a horrific, senseless murder? Like the killer's shocked mother and father, GUN careens from one perspective to another in a search for understanding"--About the play.

Contents:

Gun / Susan Yankowitz

Spell #7 / Ntozake Shange

The Jacksonian / Beth Henley

The Baltimore waltz / Paula Vogel

In the blood / Suzan-Lori Parks

Intimate apparel / Lynn Nottage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350068759

1350068756

9781350068742

1350068748

OCLC:

1244430330