{"product_id":"the-methuen-drama-anthology-of-american-women-playwrights-1970-2020-gun-spell-7-the-jacksonian-the-baltimore-waltz-in-the-blood-intimate-app-hardcover","title":"The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020: Gun, Spell #7, the Jacksonian, the Baltimore Waltz, in the Blood, Intimate App - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Yankowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eNtozake Shange\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eBeth Henley\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In this exciting new anthology, Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel bring together six wonderfully teachable plays by some of the greatest American women dramatists of the past fifty years-- Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Beth Henley, and Susan Yankowitz. The editors provide a helpful Introduction to the last 100 years of theatrical activity, from suffrage and anti-lynching plays, through the explosive 1960s, to recent Broadway triumphs, highlighting women's struggle-a struggle that continues--to put their vision and voices on the American stage.\" Elin Diamond, Rutgers University, USA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume celebrates the iconoclastic power of six American women playwrights who pushed the boundaries of the form outside the box of conventional drama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach play is accompanied by a short introduction providing the biographical background of the playwright as well as discussing the dramatic style of her writing, the extent to which her work is informed by major playwrights of the period, and how the specific work illustrates the overarching themes of her body of work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe plays included are: \u003cbr\u003eGun by Susan Yankowitz\u003cbr\u003eSpell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for\u003cbr\u003etechnologically stressed third world people by Ntozake Shange\u003cbr\u003eThe Jacksonian by Beth Henley\u003cbr\u003eThe Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel\u003cbr\u003eIn the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks\u003cbr\u003eIntimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAimée K. Michel\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Theater at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. She was the Artistic Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for over 10 years where she produced new American plays. Before this, she was Artistic Director of the Drama League's Directors Project in New York City where she created the New Directors\/New Works program. As a freelance director, she has directed in theaters all over the country. She was a recipient of both the Drama League's Directors Project Fellowship and the Boris Segal Directing Fellowship at Williamstown Theater Festival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWesley Brown \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. He co-edited the multicultural anthologies, '\u003ci\u003eImagining America'\u003c\/i\u003e (fiction), '\u003ci\u003eVisions of America'\u003c\/i\u003e (non-fiction), edited the \u003ci\u003eTeachers \u0026amp; Writers Guide to Frederick \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglass \u003c\/i\u003eand wrote the narration for a segment of the PBS documentary, \u003ci\u003eW.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in four Voices. \u003c\/i\u003eIn addition, he is the author of four produced plays, \u003ci\u003eBoogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, A Prophet Among Them, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dark Meat\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eon a Funny Mind\u003c\/i\u003e; three novels, \u003ci\u003eTragic Magic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDarktown Strutters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePushComes to SHOVE \u003c\/i\u003eand a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eDance of the Infidels\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51792302178592,"sku":"9781350068735","price":175.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/260710d565961f4ee0e688ac54790c07.webp?v=1780698349","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-methuen-drama-anthology-of-american-women-playwrights-1970-2020-gun-spell-7-the-jacksonian-the-baltimore-waltz-in-the-blood-intimate-app-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}