Ebook: Beauty's daughter ; Monster ; The gimmick: three plays
Author: Orlandersmith Dael
- Tags: African American women, DRAMA--American, Drama, African American women -- Drama, DRAMA -- American
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds. In the Obie Award-winning play "Beauty's Daughter," Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled aspirations in drugs and alcohol. In "Monster," Theresa imagines a life in the rock-'n'-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan's Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem, where she is scorned as a misfit. And in "The Gimmick," Alexis escapes her brutal reality among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming a writer in Paris. Charged with fearless wisdom, these three electrifying plays transform rage-filled ghetto experience into a triumph of rhapsodic expression. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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