Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593762941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Three Powerhouses" according to Travis. It's extremely difficult to find an author's collection with such consistently good work. Every playwright has their duds, but if Rajiv Joseph has any, they're not here. The book itself, is light and very easy to read, but it's really the plays that make it so special.I performed Gruesome Playground Injuries as Doug last yea. "Three very different plays" according to Peter J. Orvetti. This collection offers three plays that shift between the real and the surreal, in three very different worlds.My favorite of the three is "Animals Out of Paper", which focuses on an angry artist and her brilliant, cocky, yet insecure teenage protege, brought together by a love of -- or compulsion with -- origami. "Bengal Ti. Based solely on Bengal Tiger I bought this book based solely on the fact I wanted to read Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. When I was living in L.A. years ago, I remember a buzz going around town about this play. That's pretty impressive, considering L.A. is movie town.Bengal Tiger has everything. It will make you think, laugh, cry, squirm you name it.B
The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award, he is an artist to watch. Rajiv Joseph is one of today’s most acclaimed young playwrights. This volume gathers together for the first time his three major works to date.Included herein are his latest play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, which charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another’s love and the cumu