| 'Woman Alone' & Other Plays Contributor(s): Fo, Dario (Author), Rame, Franca (Author), Hanna, Gillian (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0413640302 ISBN-13: 9780413640307 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2009 Annotation: "The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose.First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at ourselves."-Franca Rame "Escaping domestic servitude to enjoy free love; the assault on body and spirit of a gang rape; the joys and vicissitudes of a day and a night on the razzle: in the skillful hands of Gillian Hanna, who also translates Franca Rame and Daria Fo's sparkling plays, this becomes the dramatic stuff of women's lives."-Ann McFerran, Time Out Edited by Stuart Hood and translated by: Gillian Hanna, who performed a selection of pieces to great critical acclaim at the Half Moon Theatre, London in 1989; Ed Emery, political activist and translator of Fo's Mistero Buffo; and Christopher Cairns, Italianist and Reader in Italian Drama, at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General - Education |
| Dewey: 852.914 |
| Series: Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 4.7" W x 7.26" (0.36 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiencesThe pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at ourselves - Franca Rame Set at the point where reality and ideology rub up against each other, [these] monologues are vivid, concise and entertaining comments on the female condition...comic-but-angry, raw-but-precise - Independent |