Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick

Three Plays

Dael Orlandersmith, Dael Orlandersmith

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Vintage Books
15 January 2001

Plays & playscripts; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Black & Asian studies

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.

By: Dael Orlandersmith, Dael Orlandersmith
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9780375708718
ISBN 10: 0375708715
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 January 2001
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dael Orlandersmith lives in New York City. She won an Obie award in 1995 for ""Beauty's Daughter.""

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

There is a tough and necessary beauty in this writing, in these finely-detailed portraits of funny, infuriating, heroic people--. Orlandersmith hears the human need for dignity and justice, for love--. She is critic, witness, and poet. --Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America [Orlandersmith's] depictions of the characters in her native East Harlem neighborhood--some broken, some on the way down--are passionate and full of insight. -- The New Yorker An exciting new voice--of fiery rebellion and lilting lyricism--at once full of anger and compassion. -- The New York Times