The first collection of plays by one of the major figures of the American stage.
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Emily Mann is one of a handful of contemporary playwrights rediscovering and redefining the art of the historical drama. The four plays in this new paperback personalize, with growing surety and power, the Holocaust (Annulla), the Vietnam War (Still Life), the assassination of San Francisco's mayor and openly gay supervisor (Execution of Justice), and the 1979 North Carolina riot in which an anti-Klan rally turned into a Klan killing spree (Greensboro: A Requiem). Mann always keeps the issues at flesh-and-blood level. Her plays take us on a tour of the hearts of both her heroes and her villains, which has the power to make them that much more heroic and villainous. Her sympathies may be left-wing, but her right-wing characters are never cartoons and her leftists are rarely unalloyed saints. All are written from the gut outward. She shows that such outsize characters don't belong just to the past. Once we look through her eyes, we can see these people walking among us every day.
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Emily Mann's numerous awards for artistic excellence include a Guggenheim, a Playwrights Fellowship and Artistic Associate Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Theatre. In recognition of her achievements illuminating the possibilities for social, cultural and political change, she was awarded the Lee Reynolds Award.
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I have three very vivid and cherished theatre memories of the work of Emily Mann-all of them as an audience member. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dan White, San Francisco, City Hall, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Board of Supervisors, North Carolina, Castro Street, Dianne Feinstein, Joseph Freitas, Daniel James White, Emily Mann, John Spencer, South Africa, Timothy Near, Linda Hunt, Mayor Moscone, Mercedes Benz, Miss Silver, New York, Women's Party, Youth Campus New!
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I have three very vivid and cherished theatre memories of the work of Emily Mann-all of them as an audience member. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dan White, San Francisco, City Hall, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Board of Supervisors, North Carolina, Castro Street, Dianne Feinstein, Joseph Freitas, Daniel James White, Emily Mann, John Spencer, South Africa, Timothy Near, Linda Hunt, Mayor Moscone, Mercedes Benz, Miss Silver, New York, Women's Party, Youth Campus New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Elephant Walk (Disney's Animal Kingdom) by Jean Craighead George on page 247
- The Road to Damascus by August Strindberg on page 23
- The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World by Albert Wertheim in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre by Sally Avery Bermanzohn in Back Matter
- Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by S. E. Wilmer in Back Matter
- Political Stages: Plays That Shaped a Century by Emily Mann in Back Matter
- Contemporary American Monologues for Men by Todd London on page 139
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