Lanford Wilson, Vol. 1: Collected Plays, 1965-1970 (Contemporary American Playwrights) - Softcover

Wilson, Lanford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157525025X ISBN 13: 9781575250250

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 1996

Synopsis

The second volume of Smith and Kraus' publication of the complete works of Pulitzer publication of the complete works of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. Plays are Balm in Gilead, Rimers of Eldritch, Gingham Dog, Lemon Sky, and The Sand Castle.

About this title

About the Author:

Lanford Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Talley's Folly as well as Obies for The Hot L. Balitmore and The Mound Builders. He received Tony nominations for Talley's Folly, 5th of July, and Angels Fall. Wilson makes his home in Sag Harbor, New York.

From Booklist:

From the beginning, Lanford Wilson has had a fabulous ear for American dialogue--not merely American speech, but the way Americans converse in fragmentary, machine-gun bursts or in long, lonely, digressive monologues that everyone else only half listens to. It didn't matter whether Wilson was creating a quiet or noisy moment: he could conjure the mood in a line or two or even in just a pause. This gift and the knack for recognizable but unstereotypical characterization helped Wilson step easily from scruffy, small-cast one-acts to longer works requiring more actors, space, and rehearsal. In his first produced long play, the 24-character slice of New York's lower depths Balm in Gilead (1965), Wilson handled dialogue like a master, overlapping junkie rants and hustler complaints with a confidence that belied his youth. This collection includes five early long plays, from Balm in Gilead to Lemon Sky (1970). While Wilson introduces each autobiographically, a reverential essay by Village Voice critic Michael Feingold introduces them all. Jack Helbig

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 157525025X
• ISBN 13: 9781575250250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274