Our Lady of 121 Street
Jesus Hopped the a Train and in Arabia, We'd All Be Kings
Guirgis, Stephen Adly
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BOOK SUMMARY
Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continual
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Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, Our Lady of 121st Street, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama Jesus Hopped the A Train and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, an Iceman Cometh for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.
AUTHOR BIO
Stephen Adley Guirgis is an actor and playwright. A member of the LABrynth Theater Company and the MCC Playwrights Coalition, Guirgis is the recipient of new play commissions from South Coast Repertory and The Manhattan Theatre Club. He lives in New York City.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Guirgis already belongs on the list of accomplished young American playwrights that includes Suzan-Lori Parks and David Auburn." -Bruce Weber, The New York Times Magazine
"The best new play in a decade."-The New York Observer
"Guirgis has a hilarious, sympathetic, terrific ear . . . he heightens the rhythms of the street until there is a brilliant, buoyant cacophony." -Donald Lyons, New York Post
"An important new playwright has arrived." --The New Yorker
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0571211887
ISBN(13-digit): 9780571211883
Copyright: 2003
Dewey Decimal: 812/.6
Library of Congress: 2003107175
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 320
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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