Playwright's Voice

by Savran, David

• ISBN13: 9781559361637
• ISBN10: 1559361638
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Summary

This new volume of interviews with contemporary playwrights attests to the fact the dramatic art is alive and well in America and celebrates the art and talent of fifteen of the theatre's most important artists. In extensive interviews, they discuss their work, influences and their craft and how the art form relates to our cultural heritage, as well as the state of theatre-its-meaning and purposes as we approach the 21st Century. David Savran lays out their remarkable achievements and provides telling insights to their work in his substantial introductions to each interview. Interviews with: Edward Albee Jon Robin Baitz Philip Kan Gotanda Holly Hughes Tony Kushner Terrence McNally Suzan-Lori Parks Jose Rivera Ntozake Shange Nicky Silver Anna Deavere Smith Paula Vogel Wendy Wasserstein Mac Wellman and George C. Wolfe.

Author Biography

David Savran has published widely on American theatre, film and popular culture. His journalistic work includes a previous book of interviews, In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights, also published by TCG. His most recent works of cultural theory are Communists, Cowboys and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams and Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism and Contemporary American Culture. He is Professor of English at Brown University.

Table of Contents

Introduction:
The Haunted Stage	xiii
David Savran
Edward Albee	1	(24)
Jon Robin Baitz	25	(18)
Philip Kan Gotanda	43	(20)
Holly Hughes	63	(24)
Tony Kushner	87	(32)
Terrence McNally	119	(20)
Suzan-Lori Parks	139	(26)
Jose Rivera	165	(24)
Ntozake Shange	189	(24)
Nicky Silver	213	(24)
Anna Deavere Smith	237	(26)
Paula Vogel	263	(26)
Wendy Wasserstein	289	(22)
Mac Wellman	311	(28)
George C. Wolfe	339