Forword : Freedom is a debt to repay ; a legacy to uphold / Sandra G. Shannon -- Introduction : "sustaining the complexity" of Lynn Nottage / Jocelyn L. Buckner -- A chronology of Lynn Nottage's production history / Scott C. Knowles -- On the table : crumbs of freedom and fugitivity - a twenty-first century (re)reading of Crumbs from the Table of Joy / Jaye Austin Williams -- Guess who's coming to dinner : choral performance in Mud, River, Stone / Jennifer L. Hayes -- Diasporic desires in Las Meninas / Jocelyn L. Buckner -- Intimate spaces / public places : locating sites of migration, connection, and identity in Intimate Apparel / Adrienne Macki Braconi -- "It's all about a rabbit, or it ain't" : the folkloric significations of Lynn Nottage / Faedra Chatard Carpenter -- Vera Stark at the crossroads of history / Harvey Young -- Special section : Ruined -- Melodrama, sensation, and activism in Ruined / Jennifer-Scott Mobley -- Renegotiating realism : hybridity of form and political potentiality in Ruined / Jeff Paden -- Land rights and womb rights : forging difficult diasporic kinships in Ruined / Esther J. Terry -- On creativity and collaboration : a conversation with Lynn Nottage, Seret Scott, and Kate Whoriskey / Jocelyn L. Buckner -- Afterword : Lynn Nottage's futurity / Soyica Diggs Colbert.
Summary:
A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Lynn Nottage's plays, productions, activism, and artistic collaborations in order to display the extraordinary breadth and depth of her work. Each of her major plays is covered by an individually authored chapter, and also included is a special three-chapter section devoted to Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The collection is capped by an interview with Lynn Nottage herself and two of the plays' most successful directors, Seret Scott and Kate Whoriskey. -- from back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.