Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays - Paperback
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Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays - Paperback
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by Dael Orlandersmith (Author)
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.Author Biography
Dael Orlandersmith lives in New York City. She won an Obie award in 1995 for "Beauty's Daughter."
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.41 x 7.98 x 5.22 IN
Publication Date: October 17, 2000