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Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays

Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays

Orlandersmith, Dael

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Fiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 0375708715
ISBN13: 9780375708718
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Oct 17 2000
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.22 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
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.

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