The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family
Autor Richard Nelsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 iul 2017
In this acclaimed three-part play cycle, Richard Nelson—author of the much-lauded The Apple Family plays—deftly embeds the chaotic tension of the 2016 Presidential election into the hyperrealistic family gathering in the home of the Gabriels in Rhinebeck, New York. Each play is set over the course of one evening in the house the family grew up in. History (both theirs and our country’s), money, politics, family and culture are mixed together as a meal is being made—all combining to make theatre that is as immediate as it is riveting in its humanity. The trilogy includes Hungry, What Did You Expect?, and Women of a Certain Age.
Richard Nelson’s many plays include The Apple Family plays, Rodney’s Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk-nominated Franny’s Way, and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award-nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and the James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Over the next ten years, Nelson will be collaborating with preeminent translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on a major translation series of classic Russian plays.
From the author of The Apple Family plays, this illuminating trilogy reflects on American life during the 2016 national election
Richard Nelson’s many plays include The Apple Family plays, Rodney’s Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk-nominated Franny’s Way, and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award-nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and the James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Over the next ten years, Nelson will be collaborating with preeminent translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on a major translation series of classic Russian plays.
From the author of The Apple Family plays, this illuminating trilogy reflects on American life during the 2016 national election
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781559365482
ISBN-10: 155936548X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Theatre Communications Group
Colecția Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-10: 155936548X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Theatre Communications Group
Colecția Theatre Communications Group
Recenzii
"The Gabriels are the tenderly wrought creations of the playwright Richard Nelson. Their time onstage here and in two previous dramas...may collectively represent the most profound achievement in topical theater in this country since the Depression-era triumphs of Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty and Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock.” - Ben Brantley, New York Times on The Gabriels play cycle
“Hungry...may well be the most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year.” — New York Times
“Set in the kitchen of the Gabriels...Hungry gives you the feeling of being a fly on the wall in the home of people who seem reassuringly familiar even though you're just meeting them.” — Hollywood Reporter
"[What Did You Expect?] trades gently and profitably in the present-tense intimacy between performers and audience in a small space and finds in the art of playacting a map of how we live our lives." — New York Times
"By exploring the underwater part of the iceberg whose visible tip is politics, [Nelson] is challenging the idea of what political theater can be." — New York Magazine, on What Did You Expect?
"Far more than in any of his other plays, Mr. Nelson comes close here to capturing the elusive, expansive comic sadness we associate with his beloved Chekhov. That Chekhovian sense of time fading even as we inhabit it thrums through both the talk and the silences." — New York Times on Women of a Certain Age
“Hungry...may well be the most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year.” — New York Times
“Set in the kitchen of the Gabriels...Hungry gives you the feeling of being a fly on the wall in the home of people who seem reassuringly familiar even though you're just meeting them.” — Hollywood Reporter
"[What Did You Expect?] trades gently and profitably in the present-tense intimacy between performers and audience in a small space and finds in the art of playacting a map of how we live our lives." — New York Times
"By exploring the underwater part of the iceberg whose visible tip is politics, [Nelson] is challenging the idea of what political theater can be." — New York Magazine, on What Did You Expect?
"Far more than in any of his other plays, Mr. Nelson comes close here to capturing the elusive, expansive comic sadness we associate with his beloved Chekhov. That Chekhovian sense of time fading even as we inhabit it thrums through both the talk and the silences." — New York Times on Women of a Certain Age
Notă biografică
Richard Nelson's many plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk-nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award-nominated Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and the critically acclaimed, searing play cycle, The Apple Family Plays.
Descriere
From the author of The Apple Family plays, this illuminating trilogy reflects on American life during the 2016 national election.