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Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy exploded onto
the New York theatre-scene with a critically lauded production at
Playwrights Horizons. Bootycandy tells the story of Sutter, who is
on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church,
dive bars, motel rooms, and even nursing homes. O'Hara weaves
together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to
create a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay
and black. Robert O'Hara's uproarious satire crashes headlong into
the murky terrain of pain and pleasure and... BOOTYCANDY.
This is the first book to dedicate scholarly attention to the work
of Tarell Alvin McCraney, one of the most significant writers and
theater-makers of the twenty-first century. Featuring essays,
interviews, and commentaries by scholars and artists who span
generations, geographies, and areas of interest, the volume
examines McCraney's theatrical imagination, his singular writerly
voice, his incisive cultural critiques, his stylistic and formal
creativity, and his distinct personal and professional
trajectories. Contributors consider McCraney's innovations as a
playwright, adapter, director, performer, teacher, and
collaborator, bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to their
observations and analyses. In so doing, they expand and enrich the
conversations on his much-celebrated and deeply resonant body of
work, which includes the plays Choir Boy, Head of Passes, Ms. Blakk
for President, The Breach, Wig Out!, and the critically acclaimed
trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays: In the Red and Brown Water, The
Brothers Size, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, as well as the
Oscar Award-winning film Moonlight, which was based on his play In
Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find
new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social
and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving
beyond the conventional binary of black and white. Reflecting this
multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode
the traditional ways of representing black families on the American
stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with
questions of class, gender, and sexuality. They engage and critique
current definitions of black and African-American identity, as well
as previous limitations placed on what constitutes blackness and
black theatre. Written by the emerging stars of American theatre
such as Eisa Davis and Marcus Gardley, the plays explore themes as
varied as family and individuality, alienation and gentrification,
and reconciliation and belonging. They demonstrate a wide-range of
formal and structural innovations for the American theatre, and
reflect the important ways in which contemporary playwrights are
expanding the American dramatic canon with new and diverse means of
representation. Edited by two leading US scholars in black drama,
Harry J. Elam Jr (Stanford) and Douglas A. Jones Jr (Princeton),
this cutting edge anthology gathers together some of the most
exciting new American plays, selected by a rigorous academic
backbone and explored in depth by supporting critical material.
Title: Tracks of McKinlay and Party across Australia. By John
Davis, one of the expedition. Edited from Mr. Davis's manuscript
journal; with an introductory view of the recent Australian
explorations of McDouall Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough,
etc., by William Westgarth ... With map and illustrations including
a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft.
This collection offers titles providing historical context for
modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia,
Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It
includes studies of their relationship to British colonial
heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and
histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers.
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++++ British Library Davis, John; O'Hara, Robert; Mackinlay, John
1863 xvi. 408 p.; 8 . 10492.e.3.
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British explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills set
out in 1860 to explore the Australian outback -- they never
returned, but their journals tell their story. One year later, a
search party led by Frederick Walker left to find them. Though
unsuccessful, they discovered what had happened to the intrepid
explorers.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
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part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
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