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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.
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious,
complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby
Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven
and Hell, "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" is a philosophical
meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will
that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's
most notorious sinner. This latest work from the author of Our Lady
of 121st Street "shares many of the traits that have made Mr.
Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and
questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for
identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds
the poetry in lowdown street talk. [Guirgis brings to the play] a
stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the
paradoxes of faith" (Ben Brantley, "The New York Times").
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious,
complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby
Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Set in a time-bending,
seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, "The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot" is a philosophical meditation on the
conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a
close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious
sinner. This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st
Street "shares many of the traits that have made Mr. Guirgis a
playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing
mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for
identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds
the poetry in lowdown street talk. Guirgis brings to the play] a
stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the
paradoxes of faith" (Ben Brantley, "The New York Times").
When Therese Marie arrives in the emergency room of a small
hospital in the Bronx, suffering from hypothermia and in shock, no
one there knows her story. To the doctors and nurses, she is just
another abandoned elderly woman who can't even tell them her name.
But Therese Marie's dementia is not all that it seems. And when her
prodigal son, Danny, returns to New York, Therese Marie must fight
to maintain her dignity in light of her son's insistence on
confronting the ugly secrets of their past.In this unconventional
family drama, Stephen Adly Guirgis gives us a mother and son who
must face a long family legacy of abuse in order to find the true
meaning of grace.
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