| Title | : | Our Lady of 121st Street: Jesus Hopped the A Train; In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings |
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0571211887 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2003-11-05 |
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Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, Our Lady of 121st Street, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama Jesus Hopped the A Train and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, an Iceman Cometh for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.
Editorial : “Guirgis already belongs on the list of accomplished young American playwrights that includes Suzan-Lori Parks and David Auburn.” Bruce Weber, The New York Times Magazine
“The best new play in a decade.” The New York Observer
“Guirgis has a hilarious, sympathetic, terrific ear he heightens the rhythms of the street until there is a brilliant, buoyant cacophony.” Donald Lyons, New York Post
“An important new playwright has arrived.” The New Yorker
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