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Book DescriptionIt’s a poignant, impressive story of survival and love - woven into a heart wrenching tale of sacrifice to give her daughter the career that she begged for. Filled with physical conquests, Hollywood anecdotes, and personal memories- the book recounts the life of Josene Ker Weld and the career of her daughter, bizarre & quirky 50's actress Tuesday Weld. Wanting the world to know what she endured throughout her life - this book is a “Daughter Dearest” - overflowing with true stories, conversations, and all of the ‘stuff’ that you always want to know but never hear about.

Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences , Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , and The Piano Lesson , among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking...

Book Description An Evening With JonBenet Ramsey begins with a full-length play, Cowboy's Sweetheart , which imagines the life of a sexually abused and murdered child as it might have evolved had she lived. The play is followed by two essays which consider the JonBenet Ramsey case from a number of perspectives. The result is an incisive critique of the media and a compelling study of the psychological consequences of what is a national epidemic: the sexual abuse of children. Email: davis.65@osu.edu

Book DescriptionEdward Einhorn blends absurdist humor with philosophy in these critically acclaimed plays about legendary Jewish figures . GOLEM STORIES retells the legend of a clay man in 16th century Prague. Rabbi Loew creates a Golem to defend the Jews, but this Golem seems more interested in listening to the Rebbetsin's stories and falling in love with the Rabbi's daughter. Is he the reincarnated spirit of her murdered lover? Or does his childlike facade hide the face of a demon? In THE LIVING METHUSELAH , the world's oldest man has lived through the Flood, the Plague, Sodom and Gomorrah, Pompeii, and his own extremely poor judgment, thanks to his wife Serach, the world's oldest woman. Now age and a poor health regimen have caught up with him, and the doctor tells him he won't make it past the end of the play. Afflicted with every disease known to man, Methuselah fights on, flashing back in his delirium to former disasters and fantasizing about having...

Book DescriptionHow whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life.

Book DescriptionAnchored by two failed attempts to escape the slavery side of the mysterious Dismal Swamp, Summers in Suffolk is six one act plays (and screenplay) that move 130 years beyond the failed attempts. Summers in Suffolk is without a doubt a unique, multi-layered, positive portrayal of African American life spun with the richly poetic language and lyrical images of the South. Throughout the six plays and screenplay of Summers in Suffolk, a reader is caught in author Sheri Bailey's exquisite writing skill, her ability to deliver depth in the simplest of conversations. It is a high honor for Telepoetics to publish these slavery to freedom plays and screenplay as Sheri Bailey's first book, especially in coincidence with the world premiere screening of Summer Dreams at the 2005 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Book DescriptionA Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, an Emmy-winning television writer, and an Oscar-winning screenwriter of such notable films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, the amazingly versatile Horton Foote has been a force on the American cultural scene for more than fifty years. By critical consensus, Foote's foremost achievement is the Orphans' Home Cycle-a course of nine independent yet interlocking plays that traces the transformation of a small-town southern orphan, Horace Robedaux, into a husband, father, and patriarch. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including interviews with Foote, Laurin Porter demonstrates why the author's masterpiece is a unique accomplishment not only in his personal oeurve but also in the canon of American drama. Set in the fictitious town of Harrison, Texas, and based partly on the childhood of Foote's father and the courtship and marriage of his parents, the cycle is a wide-ranging, intricate work reminiscent of William...