I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done write by Joan Herrington. This book was released on 1998. I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Limelight). The most successful African-American playwright of his time, August Wilson is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the country. Herrington traces the roots of Wilson's drama back to the visual artists and jazz musicians who inspired award-winning plays like Ma Rainey's Come and Gone , Fences and The Piano Lesson . From careful analysis of evolving playscripts and from interviews with Wilson and theater professionals who have worked closely with him, Herrington offers a portrait of the playwright as thinker and craftsman.
Conversations with August Wilson
Conversations with August Wilson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations with August Wilson write by Jackson R. Bryer. This book was released on 2006. Conversations with August Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.
It Ain't All for Nothin'
It Ain't All for Nothin' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It Ain't All for Nothin' write by Walter Dean Myers. This book was released on 2009-10-06. It Ain't All for Nothin' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely knows -- unless, that is, Tippy is willing to walk the far side of the fine line between right and wrong. Grandma Carrie always said if he had Jesus in his heart there wasn't anything to worry about, but sometimes it's not that simple. When the chips are down, will Tippy be able to call for help -- and is there anyone out there who will listen?
Feed Your Mind
Feed Your Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feed Your Mind write by Jen Bryant. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Feed Your Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebration of August Wilson’s journey from a child in Pittsburgh to one of America’s greatest playwrights August Wilson (1945–2005) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who had a particular talent for capturing the authentic, everyday voice of black Americans. As a child, he read off soup cans and cereal boxes, and when his mother brought him to the library, his whole world opened up. After facing intense prejudice at school from both students and some teachers, August dropped out. However, he continued reading and educating himself independently. He felt that if he could read about it, then he could teach himself anything and accomplish anything. Like many of his plays, Feed Your Mind is told in two acts, revealing how Wilson grew up to be one of the most influential American playwrights. The book includes an author’s note, a timeline of August Wilson’s life, a list of Wilson’s plays, and a bibliography.
The Playwright's Muse
The Playwright's Muse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Playwright's Muse write by Joan Herrington. This book was released on 2013-05-13. The Playwright's Muse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.
