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Title: Pride's Crossing by Tina Howe ISBN: 1-55936-153-0 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't read the play, PERFORM IT!
Comment: The first time I read this script, I thought it would not be a good play at all. However, my school then put the play on, and I had the part of Frazier. Not only was it the most amazing experience of my life, I began to truly realize the amazing depth and excellence of this script. It is aboslutley amazing if directed well.
Rating: 5
Summary: A woman's life, a century, wise & sad
Comment: Well, I think you should read the play if you're going to review it. I mean, that is the point of a BOOK review, isn't it?
I both saw and read it, and onstage, one couldn't help but be exhilarated by the performance of Cherry Jones, one of our great American actresses. I saw an early version of the play in San Diego, then the slightly rewritten version in New York, and thought the changes made the piece stronger.
Tina Howe's voice and vision are spectacular here. Most people ignore her early, surrealist, work, and think of her as the female AR Gurney...writing about loopy wasps, such as in Painting Churches and The Art of Dining.
For those who know the early work (Birth and Afterbirth, The Nest), and who have followed her path in the last few years (prior to Pride's Crossing, she wrote One Shoe Off, which was a challenging and dangerous adult play, with more in common with Albee than Gurney), the play will fit in with themes she has explored and pondered for three decades or so.
A memory play, the 'present' is the life of the 90-something Mabel Tydings Bigelow, who swam the English channel in the 1920s. Her memory takes her back to her childhood, and the triumph of her youth, bucking the disapproval of her mother, and being ignored by her brothers, marrying a wastrel, and leaving the man she truly loved.
I sometimes wonder at the backlash at plays that focus on women and their lives, as they they aren't "important" enough to merit serious critical consideration. It seems to me it's a function of the sexism still inherent in the critical community, and while we've come a long way since the early 1900s, there are still many barriers yet to be broken down.
Rating: 2
Summary: Heavy hand
Comment: This is a play where the message was conceived first, and the play and characters were constructed around it. The result is a heavy handed didactic piece. One can endure heavy handedness, however, if the teaching is other than banal. In the case of this play, one only endures.
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Title: Amadeus : A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer ISBN: 0060935499 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez ISBN: 1558850481 Publisher: Arte Publico Pr Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts by Sam Shepard ISBN: 0452263573 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Electra by Anne Carson, Michael Shaw, E. A. Sophocles ISBN: 0195049608 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts With a New Introduction (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481354 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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