Slaughter City Contributor(s): Wallace, Naomi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0881457795 ISBN-13: 9780881457797 Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Drama | American - General - Drama | Women Authors |
Dewey: 812.54 |
Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.25 lbs) 90 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "It's not just the blood-spattered slaughterhouse setting that makes the Royal Shakespeare Company's SLAUGHTER CITY an unusually meaty (you'll forgive the expression) new play. Aligning issues of class and race and labor dynamics to a surrealist aesthetic as elusive as her politics are straightforward, American writer Naomi Wallace shows a willingness to embrace topics once treated by the likes of Clifford Odets and Sophie Treadwell. "Naomi Wallace's SLAUGHTER CITY, which gets its premiere in The Pit, is a strange and compelling play that unties two elements in the American tradition--the radical and the mystic. If it reminds me of anyone it is the Walt Whitman who wrote of 'the audacity of freedom' and the need for America to free itself from the anti-democratic European past. |