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Title: Spinning Into Butter : A Play by Rebecca Gilman ISBN: 0-571-19984-4 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 07 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully Written
Comment: Gilman is certainly one of the most promising young playwrights in the world, and this play solidifies that. She has created a beautiful portrait of the problems created when those in power attempt to relate to different races, and the absurdity of an individual believing he or she can relate to someone with completely different life experiences. Gilman zeros in precisely on how political correctness has gone too far as to be almost absurd, instead of letting people have their own say in matters. When the headmaster of the college in this play attepmts -- with good intentions -- to intrude into the lives of her minority students, chaos ensues, and she realizes just how little she has learned about equality.
Also wonderful in this play is the subplot about the professors and deans, who are all fighting for position and recognition among both the academic public and the student body, and how the wide infighting among faculty at colleges can affect its students.
This play drives deep without seeming too, questioning just how many amongst us are truly racists without being aware of it, and how the road to hell really is paved with good intentions. A good modern read, and a playwright to watch.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Stop acting like you know the first thing about black..."
Comment: George Bernard Shaw once said "I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, then all would be well with the world. This seemed good and very nice but I found that when I went into the world and tried to put it into practice; not only that the world was seldom lovable...but that I was not very lovable myself." This quotation applies directly to Gilman's important new work. Sarah is the dean of students at a mostly white university. When controversy occurs, Sarah begins to examine herself. Sarah's personal battle with the darkness within herself is perhaps a battle that we should all take up. read it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Spinning Into Butter
Comment: I think this play is an important play, that should be read by everyone who lives and engaged life.
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Title: Boy Gets Girl : A Play by Rebecca Gilman ISBN: 0571199836 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 29 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute ISBN: 0571211380 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Glory of Living: A Play by Rebecca Gilman ISBN: 0571199984 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Distance from Here by Neil Labute ISBN: 1585673714 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute ISBN: 0571212468 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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