Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individually, each is a molotov cocktail tossed onto the stage, each a political movement encapsulated in dramatic form. Combined, they constitute both a conflagration and a record of American political and theatrical ideology. Never before, however, have they been collected in one explosive volume. In Political Stages, they have at last been preserved, ever ready to serve at the barricades of subsequent eras. Includes works by Tennessee Williams, Emily Mann, Clifford Odets, Langston Hughes, and others.
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The original concept behind this volume was to collect political plays spanning what has been called the "American Century," to reflect upon the place of the American theatre in our public sphere as we begin to explore where we have been and where we are going in this new millennium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Dan White, San Francisco, Harvey Milk, New York, Colonel Tom, George Moscone, City Hall, United States, Queen Victoria, Daniel James White, Sailor Jack, Another American, Colonel Norwood, Patrice Lumumba, British Commonwealth, Berne Convention, Board of Supervisors, Daniel White, International Copyright Union, Mary Alice, Miss Silver, South African, Still Life, Susan Glaspell, White House New!
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The original concept behind this volume was to collect political plays spanning what has been called the "American Century," to reflect upon the place of the American theatre in our public sphere as we begin to explore where we have been and where we are going in this new millennium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Dan White, San Francisco, Harvey Milk, New York, Colonel Tom, George Moscone, City Hall, United States, Queen Victoria, Daniel James White, Sailor Jack, Another American, Colonel Norwood, Patrice Lumumba, British Commonwealth, Berne Convention, Board of Supervisors, Daniel White, International Copyright Union, Mary Alice, Miss Silver, South African, Still Life, Susan Glaspell, White House New!
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- Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams on 9 pages
- Open admissions by Shirley Lauro on 4 pages
- Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Pt. 2) by Tony Kushner on 4 pages
- What is it? by Rose Williams on page 428, page 430, and page 508
- Waiting for Lefty. by Clifford Odets on page 346, page 350, and page 389
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- Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama by Michael Paller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama (Greenwood Introduces Literary Masterpieces) by Susan C. W. Abbotson in Back Matter
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