Published by University of Hawai'i Press, 2019, 358 pages “The work remains of breaking down myths and building up re-visioned ones that empower rather than demean. It remains to tell new stories that are really ancient ones, persisting in our blood, paradoxically and endearingly both familiar and breathtakingly novel, stories that deconstruct the lies and …
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The Piano Lesson and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: August Wilson
Published by Penguin, 228 pages. The Piano Lesson was first published in 1986. Joe Turner's Come and Gone was first published in 1984. (Note: the dates of first publication are not clear; these may not be accurate.) These two plays form part of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of 10 plays, each set in …
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Rock ‘n’ Roll: Tom Stoppard
Published by Faber and Faber, 2006, 144 pages. This is Tom Stoppard’s play about Czechoslovakia, protest, love, and the power of rock and roll. It covers the years from 1968 to 1990, and the action moves between the house of Max—a staunch communist and a member of the British Communist Party—in Cambridge and the apartment …
