Marsha Norman, Vol. 1: Collected Works (Contemporary Playwrights) - Softcover

Marsha Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575250292 ISBN 13: 9781575250298

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The plays in this volume are Loving Daniel Boone, The Holdup, Circus Valentine, Sarah and Abraham, Getting Out, Traveler in the Dark, and Third and Oak. This collection will also include introductory notes by the playwright, original cast and production information.

About this title

About the Author:

Marsha Norman won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize recipient (1983 'Night Mother). Her play Getting Out won the John Gassner Playwriting Medallion, the Newsday Oppenheimer Award, and a special citation from the American Theatre Critics Association. Ms. Norman received a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her Broadway Musical, The Secret Garden. She serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild and was the recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

From Booklist:

Norman won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for 'Night, Mother but remains virtually unknown. That is a shame because, as the first volume of her collected plays shows, she is an unusually sensitive and powerful writer, able to find drama in the most mundane settings--a laundromat, a pool hall, a cheap apartment. More important, Kentucky-based Norman writes about the world of poor southern whites and blacks without resorting to offensive stereotypes or to bogus, politically correct cliche s. The plays in this volume aren't equally successful, though, for cheek by jowl with the early triumphs Getting Out and Third and Oak are two great disasters: Circus Valentine, which Norman considers her first bomb, and Traveler in the Dark, whose vicious reviews compelled Norman to stop writing for four years. Still, every play, thoughtfully introduced by the author, affords insight into how Norman has grown and changed. That alone makes the book valuable, and the three essays on the state of playwriting in contemporary American theater do nothing to detract from that value. Jack Helbig

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1575250292
• ISBN 13: 9781575250298
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 412