{"product_id":"testimonies-four-plays-paperback","title":"Testimonies: Four Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first major collection by playwright Emily Mann contains four powerful docudramas. Based on extensive interviews of real people's experiences, these plays explore various moral issues and questions that still resonate in America today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnulla: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e is a solo piece featuring the reflections of an elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by pretending to by Aryan. Jerry Talmer of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e calls \u003ci\u003eAnnulla\u003c\/i\u003e \"one bangup 90 minutes of theatre...I don't know when I've been stimulated as much by anything on the living stage.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of interviews with a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, the pregnant wife he physically and emotionally abuses, and the mistress who finds herself entranced by his passion and violence. This Obie Award-winning play is \"a powerful affair, full of passion and viability...Mann offers no easy answers or pat solutions, she simply invites us into these three characters' lives\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExecution of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e follows the trial of the former policeman who shot San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. Called \"thought-provoking...a taut courtroom drama\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e Execution of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e \"is theatre reasserting its claim on the country's moral conscience\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreensboro: A Requiem\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a particularly all-American tragedy\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) as Mann interviews those involved in the largely unreported 1979 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Greensboro police force, and FBI. \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e calls \u003ci\u003eGreensboro\u003c\/i\u003e \"a provocation, a potent expos  of the 'less-than-human thing' which fuels the politics of hate and injustice in America.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Mann\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright and director. Her plays include \u003ci\u003eExecution of Justice, Still Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHaving Our Say\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is currently Artistic Director of Princeton, New Jersey's McCarter Theatre--recipient of the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Her numerous awards for artistic excellence include a Guggenheim, a Playwrights Fellowship and Artistic Associate Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a McKnight Fellowship and a Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Theatre. In recognition of her achievements illuminating the possibilities for social, cultural and political change, Ms. Mann was awarded the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women\/NY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 8.46 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771555545376,"sku":"9781559361170","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d638858216925f0e2d5c66c5661a7b45.webp?v=1780388297","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/testimonies-four-plays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}