Martyna Majok, Anna Ziegler, Sylvia Khoury, Bess Wohl, Dominique Morisseau, Harrison David Rivers

The Height of Summer: New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 (eBook, PDF)

Paradise Blue; Cost of Living; Actually; Where Storms Are Born; Selling Kabul; Grand Horizons
Redaktion: Greenfield, Mandy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 provides a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condition, these plays frequently feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors.

These six plays are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. These plays imagine and interrogate pieces of the human experience we are still in the midst of unpacking and understanding.

Complete with introductions by each of the authors reflecting on their work, these historic, award-winning, and groundbreaking plays now live in conversation with one another in this unique collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350289338
• Artikelnr.: 63900068

Autorenporträt

Martyna Majok is a Polish-born American playwright who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and grew up in New Jersey. Majok studied playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and Juilliard School

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction by Mandy Greenfield 2. Brief History of Williamstown
Theatre Festival 3. Note from Martyna Majok COST OF LIVING by Martyna Majok
4. Note from Anna Ziegler ACTUALLY by Anna Ziegler 5. Note from Sylvia
Khoury SELLING KABUL by Sylvia Khoury 6. Note from Bess Wohl GRAND HORIZONS
by Bess Wohl 7. Note from Dominique Morisseau PARADISE BLUE by Dominique
Morisseau 8. Note from Harrison David Rivers WHERE STORMS ARE BORN by
Harrison David Rivers