Myth, Magic, and Farce: Four Multicultural Plays - Softcover

Houston, Sterling

 
9781574411874: Myth, Magic, and Farce: Four Multicultural Plays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 157441187X ISBN 13: 9781574411874
Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH TEXAS PR, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality. Despite many successful productions, his work has never before been widely available in print. The four plays in this collection represent Houston’s full range of themes and styles. High Yello Rose deflates the Alamo myth by casting the heroes’ parts entirely with women. Isis in Nubia is a love story that sets the Isis/Osiris myth in West Africa. Black Lily and White Lily is a realistic domestic drama exploring racial tensions. Miranda Rites returns to Houston’s broadly farcical style, enacting Martha Mitchell’s last days in a hospital, where she hallucinates about Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, and is escorted to the underworld by Carmen Miranda.

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Born in San Antonio, Sterling Houston spent thirty years in the theatre as actor, composer, and playwright. He was artistic director and writer-in-residence for Jump-Start Performance Co. in San Antonio, where he premiered twenty plays.



Sandra M. Mayo is currently Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Theatre at Texas State University in San Marcos.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NORTH TEXAS PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
157441187X
ISBN 13 
9781574411874
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
Herausgeber
Mayo Sandra M.
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