eBook - ePub
The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020
Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate Apparel
This is a test
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020
Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate Apparel
Book details
Book preview
Table of contents
Citations
About This Book
"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 This volume celebrates the iconoclastic power of six American women playwrights who pushed the boundaries of the form outside the box of conventional drama. Each 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. The plays included are:
Gun by Susan Yankowitz
Spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for
technologically stressed third world people by Ntozake Shange
The Jacksonian by Beth Henley
The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel
In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
Frequently asked questions
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020 by Wesley Brown, Aimée K. Michel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Theatre Playwriting. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
Information
In the Blood
Suzan-Lori Parks
Production History
In the Blood premiered at The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival (George C. Wolfe, Producer; Rosemarie Tichler, Artistic Producer; Mark Litvin, Managing Director) in New York City in November 1999. It was directed by David Esbjornson; the set design was by Narelle Sissons; the lighting design was by Jane Cox; the sound design was by Don DiNicola; the costume design was by Elizabeth Hope Clancy; the production dramaturg was John Dias; and the production stage manager was Kristen Harris. The cast was as follows:
| Hester, La Negrita | Charlayne Woodard |
| Chilli/Jabber | Rob Campbell |
| Reverend D./Baby | Reggie Montgomery |
| Welfare Lady/Bully | Gail Grate |
| Doctor/Trouble | Bruce MacVittie |
| Amiga Gringa/Beauty | Deirdre O’Connell |
Author’s Elements of Style
I’m continuing the use of my slightly unconventional theatrical elements. Here’s a road map:
•(Rest)
Take a little time, a pause, a breather; make a transition.
Take a little time, a pause, a breather; make a transition.
•A Spell
An elongated and heightened (Rest). Denoted by repetition of figures’ names with no dialogue. Has sort of an architectural look:
An elongated and heightened (Rest). Denoted by repetition of figures’ names with no dialogue. Has sort of an architectural look:
Reverend D.
Hester
Reverend D.
Hester
This is a place where the figures experience their pure true simple state. While no action or stage business is necessary, directors should fill this moment as they best see fit.
•[Brackets in the text indicate optional cuts for production.]
•(Parentheses around dialogue indicate softly spoken passages (asides; sotto voce)).
Characters
Hester, La Negrita
Chilli/Jabber, her oldest son
Reverend D./Baby, her youngest son
Welfare Lady/Bully, her oldest daughter
Doctor/Trouble, her middle son
Amiga Gringa/Beauty, her youngest daughter
Place
Here
Time
Now
Author’s Note
This play requires a cast of six adult actors, five of whom double as adults and children. The setting should be spare, to reflect the poverty of the world of the play.
Prologue
All clustered together.
All THERE SHE IS!
WHO DOES SHE THINK
SHE IS
THE NERVE SOME PEOPLE HAVE
SHOULDNT HAVE IT IF YOU CANT AFFORD IT
AND YOU KNOW SHE CANT
SHE DONT GOT NO SKILLS
CEPT ONE
CANT READ CANT WRITE
SHE MARRIED?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
SHE OUGHTA BE MARRIED
THATS WHY THINGS ARE BAD LIKE THEY ARE
CAUSE OF
GIRLS LIKE THAT
THAT EVER HAPPEN TO ME YOU WOULDNT SEE ME HAVING IT
YOU WOULDNT SEE THAT HAPPENING TO ME
WHO THE HELL SHE THINK SHE IS
AND NOW WE GOT TO PAY FOR IT
THE NERVE
SOME PEOPLE HAVE
BAD LUCK
SHE OUGHTA GET MARRIED
TO WHO?
THIS AINT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED TO HER
NO?
THIS IS HER FIFTH
FIFTH?
SHE GOT FIVE OF THEM
FIVE BRATS
AND NOT ONE OF THEM GOT A DADDY
PAH!
They spit.
WHOS THE DADDY?
SHE WONT TELL
SHE WONT TELL CAUSE SHE DONT KNOW
SHE KNOWS
NO SHE DONT
HOW COULD A GIRL NOT KNOW
WHEN YOU HAD SO MUCH ACTION YOU LOSE A FRACTION
OF YR GOOD SENSE
THE PART OF MEN SHE SEES ALL LOOK THE SAME ANYWAY
WATCH YR MOUTH
I DIDNT SAY NOTHING
YOU TALKING ALL NASTY AND THAT AINT RIGHT
THERES CHILDREN HERE
WHERES THE CHILDREN I DONT SEE NO CHILDREN
SHE MARRIED?
SHE AINT MARRIED
SHE DONT GOT NO SKILLS
CEPT ONE
CANT READ CANT WRITE
SHE MARRIED?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
All
All
All
SHE KNOWS SHES A NO COUNT
SHIFTLESS
HOPELESS
BAD NEWS
BURDEN TO SOCIETY
HUSSY
SLUT
PAH!
They spit.
JUST PLAIN STUPID IF YOU ASK ME AINT NO SMART WOMAN GOT 5 BASTARDS
AND...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel
- Introduction to Susan Yankowitz Wesley Brown
- Gun Susan Yankowitz
- Introduction to Ntozake Shange Wesley Brown
- Spell #7 Ntozake Shange
- Introduction to Beth Henley Aimée K. Michel
- The Jacksonian Beth Henley
- Introduction to Paula Vogel Aimée K. Michel
- The Baltimore Waltz Paula Vogel
- Introduction to Suzan-Lori Parks Wesley Brown
- In the Blood Suzan-Lori Parks
- Introduction to Lynn Nottage Aimée K. Michel
- Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage
- Selected Bibliography
- Copyright