Историческая литература
Различные книги в жанре Историческая литератураIran: Ally or Enemy?
Persian Empire, Pariah State, Nuclear Partner After decades of political and cultural isolation, Iran faces a new chapter in its 2500-year-old history. Following the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Iran will re-enter international trade markets and be reinstated in the eyes of the West. Trace the evolution and impact of Iran’s complex relationship with the United States in Iran: Ally or Enemy? Through a series of concise, powerful articles, Iran: Ally or Enemy? examines events from the shah’s rule to the Islamic Revolution to the hostage crisis. Placing these tensions and milestones in context, Iran follows the country’s emergence from its status as a geopolitical pariah to its new role: a partner for the West.
Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition)
Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama. . . there are many kinds of light.The light of fires. The light of stars.The light that reflects off rivers.Light that penetrates through cracks.Then there’s the type of light that reflects off the skin.—Nilo Cruz, Anna in the TropicsThis lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new «lector» (who reads Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land."The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both specific place and time . . . and in timeless passions that touch us all. In Anna in the Tropics, the world premiere work he created for Coral Gables’ intimate New Theatre, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power."—Miami HeraldNilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States including the Public Theater (New York, NY), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA), Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theater (Princeton, NJ) and New Theatre (Coral Gables, FL). His other plays include Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a Piano, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, among others. Anna in the Tropics also won the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. Mr. Cruz teaches playwriting at Yale University and lives in New York City.
Defiance
–Second play on 3 part project begun with «Doubt» -"Doubt" has sold over 40,000 copies and was awarded the Pulizter Prize
Liars, Thieves and Other Sinners on the Bench
“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”— Publishers Weekly , on the work of Jo Carson “She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say. Her work has inspired innumerable young artists to take up work with their own communities.”—Linda Frye Burnham, Community Arts Network “Human experience is varied and astonishing,” notes Jo Carson, “and this is a taste.” A uniquely American writer and performer, Carson has spent fifteen years working with peoples’ stories in communities across the country, crafting more than thirty plays from the oral histories she has collected. In performance, these works have illuminated and invigorated the communities in which they were forged, as the people see themselves onstage in a new light. This book collects Carson’s favorite excerpts from the plays—stories that range from the homespun to the extraordinary and together create a portrait of America in an amazing diversity and authenticity of voices. They are slices of life, passed beyond the circle of family and neighbors. Jo Carson is a writer and performer living in John City, Tennessee. She has published award-winning plays, short stories, children’s books, essays, poems, and other work, and for years was a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered . Her play Whispering to Horses and solo show If God Came Down . . . premiered at Seven Stages Theatre in Atlanta, and her book of monologues and dialogues, Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet , made Booklist ’s editor’s choice and the American Library Association’s recommended list.
Inside/Outside
– The first collection of Palestinian plays, inspired by a growing interest in U.S. theatres and abroad, as well as academic journals.– Six contemporary plays from the West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian diaspora.– Will be of great interest to the academic market for courses in world theatre, performance and politics and theatre for social change, as well as Middle Eastern studies.– Plays include: Handala, adapted by Abdelfattah Abusrour; 603 by Imad Farajin; Keffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia Taha; Plan D by Hannah Khalil; Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi and Territories by Betty Shamieh.Naomi Wallace, editor: – Her award-winning plays, including One Flea Spare, are produced in the United States and around the world. – Awards include: Obie Award, MacArthur Fellowship, two Susan Smith Blackburn prizes and the inaugural Windham Campbell prize for drama in 2013. – B.A. from Hampshire College; two Masters degrees from University of Iowa – Lives in KY and Yorkshire Dales in EnglandIsmail Khalidi, editor: – Palestinian-American playwright and poet – Born in Beirut, Lebanon; lives in Chicago, IL – MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
Insurrection: Holding History
• Winner of the Oppenheim Award • First production in 1997 at the Public Theater in New York • Major new production currently at A.C.T. in San Francisco • First published in American Theatre magazine • Playwright is 26 years old. • Gay theme with academic appeal.
A Fair Country
•Currently running at Lincoln Center in NYC •Film of Substance of Fire opens this Fall Previous publications Three Hotels (Sold 2,400) The Substance of Fire (Sold 2,800)
The Assembled Parties
" The Assembled Parties is Greenberg's most richly emotional work in years, and the most beautifully detailed."— New York magazine"This tragicomedy shocks us into realizing how hungry we have been for witty and wounded grown-ups who toss off gorgeously written observations without knowing how little we know about what we think we know."— Newsday Meet the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In an opulent apartment overlooking Central Park, former movie star Julie and her sister-in-law Faye bring their families together for a traditional holiday dinner on a night when things don't go as planned. Twenty years later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs's seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble. An incisive portrait of a family grasping for stability at the dawn of a new millennium, The Assembled Parities premiered on Broadway in 2013 to rave reviews and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Richard Greenberg has written two dozen plays in his thirty-year career, including Take Me Out (Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award, NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award), The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award), Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), The American Plan , the book for a musical adaptation of Far From Heaven , and many more. He has received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career.
The Inspector
A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s comedy by renowned playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky – the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature including the best-selling Oprah’s Book Club selection, Anna Karenina – marks the first of a series of translations of important Russian plays over the next ten years.