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The Flick (Paperback)
Annie Baker
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Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema
attendants - 'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely
touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times. In a run-down
movie theatre in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees
mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimetre film
projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny
heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping
than the lacklustre, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight
and a finely tuned ear for comedy, The Flick is a hilarious and
heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world. The
Flick arrived at the National Theatre, London, in 2016, direct from
New York, where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It went on to
win Best New Play at the 2016 Critics' Circle Awards.
Anni Baker has created a fascinating exploration of life in the
armed forces, as it has been experienced by millions of men, women,
and children over the past six decades. Her book examines the
factors that shape military service and military culture, from
grueling training exercises to sexual relations with local women,
from overseas duty to the peculiar life of the military "brat." The
book begins with an examination of the enlistment process, follows
the military lifecycle through career decisions, promotions,
raising families, and retirement, explores the impact of war on
military society, and ends with a discussion of the place of the
armed forces in the United States. A wide variety of sources were
used in this study, including contemporary scholarship, government
and military records, public media, and, most important, interviews
and written materials from military personnel, retirees, family
members, and civilian employees. Using a lively and readable style,
Baker blends clear explanations of elements of military life,
information on the development of military society, and the voices
of those who serve into an insightful account of this fascinating
subculture. It is the author's view that not only is study of the
U.S. military a valuable undertaking in itself, but in addition it
will enrich our perspective on civilian life and culture in the
United States. The military is a distinct society based on a set of
common values that are sometimes, though not always, at odds with
those of civilian society. The extent to which active duty
personnel, family members and civilians internalize these values
dictates their comfort with military life and their choice of a
military career.Through a discussion of life in the military, Baker
examines how the values, traditions and norms of the armed forces
are articulated and shared, how they influence the individual and
the institution, and what their role is in American society as a
whole.
WINNER! 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2013 OBIE Award,
Playwriting Winner! 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee! 2013
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play Nominee! 2013 Lucille Lortel
Award, Outstanding Play Finalist! 2013 New York Critics Circle
Award, Best Play In a run-down movie theater in central
Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend
to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state.
Their tiny battles and not
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John (Paperback)
Annie Baker
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The week after Thanksgiving. A Bed & Breakfast in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to
stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching. A simple
enough description, but Annie Baker's fascinating play takes a look
at what theatre can be and builds a world all its own. Baker's
hyper-realism bleeds into the eerily supernatural in this quiet
tale, where actors and audiences alike delve into ideas of self,
mortality, and the solitu
Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start.
Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try
and find some meaning in their lives. Counting to ten can be harder
than you think. Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted
together in this tender and funny play. Annie Baker's Circle Mirror
Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the
2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the
top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New
Yorker. It premiered in the UK as part of the Royal Court's Theatre
Local strand of site specific productions across London.
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
Annie Baker; Contributions by Anton Chekov
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This intimate, immersive new adaptation of Chekhov's classic from
critically-acclaimed playwright Annie Baker, author of Body
Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, and The Flick, brings
colloquial language to this internationaly beloved story of human
relationships and yearning. Written with the "goal of creating a
version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way the
play sounded to Russian ears during the play's first productions in
the provinces in 1898," Ms. Bake
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John (Paperback)
Annie Baker
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The week after Thanksgiving. A bed and breakfast in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to
stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching. John, an
uncanny play by Annie Baker, was first seen Off-Broadway in 2015.
The play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in
2018, in a production directed by James Macdonald. Annie Baker's
other plays include Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick, The
Antipodes, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, and an
adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. She has won many other awards,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Grant.
Over the past 60 years, the U.S. armed forces have created a web of
military bases all over the world, from Australia to Iceland to
Saudi Arabia. This is the aspect of military service that the
majority of soldiers know and remember. Interaction between U.S.
personnel and local populations is almost a given, and it is
inevitable that the American and host communities will influence
each other in numerous ways. This book looks at the history and
impact of American military communities overseas. It discusses how
U.S. bases affected economic and political life in the host
communities, how host societies shape the profile and activities of
military communities, and what happens when relations break down.
Through case studies of communities around the world, Baker shows
that the U.S. armed forces have had a surprisingly large impact
both positive and negative on the affairs of many (but not all)
host societies, including economic revitalization, cultural change,
and, sometimes, tragic social consequences. In not a few cases, the
U.S. military presence has become politically controversial on a
national level. On the other hand, many host nations have
successfully circumscribed the activities of military communities,
rendering their potentially disruptive presence almost invisible.
Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their
days talking music and Bukowski outside the back of a small coffee
shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer
working at the cafe. When he meets the two young men he is
irresistibly drawn to their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical
musings and great-bands-that never-were. One of the freshest voices
to come out of America in recent years, Annie Baker's gentle,
engaging and deeply funny play introduces two cult heroes in the
shape of KJ and Jasper, and puts modern day America under the
microscope. What happened to the generation who never grew up? The
Aliens opened at the Bush Theatre, London in September 2010. The
play's world premiere was held at the Rattlestick Playwrights
Theater, New York, in April of the same year.
"(Baker's) heartbreaking works of staggering focus have actually
rescued realism from the aesthetic scrap heap" -- Helen Shaw, "Time
Out New York"
"Baker has as natural an ear for how people talk--and shut
up--as any American playwright of recent years... She is the aural
equivalent of a good photo-realist painter, someone who makes us
see the quotidian in such heightened detail that it looks almost
shockingly new." --Ben Brantley, "New York Times"
"Baker is a writer whose plays have a quiet, hypnotic charm, a
grace and humor. She's able to take ordinary, low-key situations--a
small-town acting class, guys wasting time in an alley behind a
cafe--and fill them with gentle comedy, generosity of spirit and an
eye (and ear) for the foibles that make us all so hopelessly
human." --"Village Voice"
With her quartet of plays set in small-town Vermont,
twenty-nine-year-old Annie Baker is making a big impact on the
American theater. "Circle Mirror Transformation," which takes place
in a summer acting class and alternates between theater exercises
and moments between classmates, shares the 2010 OBIE Award for Best
Play with "The Aliens," Baker's "gentle and extraordinarily
beautiful new play" ("The New York Times") that explores weighty
topics of love and death through the easy banter of the slackers
behind the local coffee shop. Also included in "The Vermont Plays"
is "Body Awareness," set during Body Awareness Week at the local
college, and "Nocturama," in which a twenty-six-year-old
Brooklynite returns to live with his mom and video game obsessed
stepfather.
Annie Baker's plays include "Body Awareness," "Circle Mirror
Transformation," "The Aliens," "The End of the Middle Ages," and
"Nocturama." Her honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle
Special Citation, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, and a
Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship.
2m, 2f, Comic Drama / Interior and Areas It's "Body Awareness" week
on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her
partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home,
Frank, a painter famous for his female nude portraits. Both his
presence in the home and his chosen subject instigate tension from
the start. Phyllis is furious at his depictions, but Joyce is
actually rather intrigued by the whole thing, even going so far as
to contemplate posing for him. As Joyce and Phyllis bicker, Joyce's
adult son, who may or may not have Asperger's Syndrome, struggles
to express himself physically with heartbreaking results. " An
engaging new comedy by a young playwright with a probing,
understated voice. [...] Its quiet rewards steal up on you." -New
York Times
A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and
telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they
continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part sacred
rite, Annie Baker's play The Antipodes asks what value stories have
for a world in crisis. First seen at Signature Theatre, New York,
in 2017, the play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre,
London, in 2019. 'The most original and significant American
dramatist since August Wilson' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov; Adapted by Annie Baker
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"Superior to any other "Uncle Vanya" I've read or seen... Baker
practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again." - Clancy
Martin, "Paris Review"
"Strikingly intimate... Free of the stilted or formal locutions
that clutter up some of the more antique-sounding translations...
Ms. Baker has given the play a natural but distinctly contemporary
American sound." - Charles Isherwood, "New York Times"
"Devastatingly beautiful... People are going to be talking about
this one for years." - Jacob Gallagher-Ross, "Village Voice"
"More than a modern-dress treatment of a classic work, it's a fresh
rethinking of the material from the perspective of a modern mind."
- Marilyn Stasio, "Variety"
Annie Baker, one of the most celebrated playwrights in the United
States, lends her truthful observation and elegant command of the
colloquial to Anton Chekhov's despairing masterpiece "Uncle Vanya."
A critical hit in its sold-out Off-Broadway premiere, Baker's
telling is a refreshingly intimate and modern treatment of a
Chekhovian classic.
Annie Baker's plays include "The Flick" (The Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize, Obie Award), "The Aliens" (Obie Award), "Circle Mirror
Transformation" (Obie Award) and "Body Awareness." Her work has
been produced at more than a hundred theaters in the U.S. and in
more than a dozen countries internationally. Recent honors include
a Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinberg Playwright Award and New York
Drama Critics Circle Award. She is a resident playwright at the
Signature Theatre.
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