What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155936159X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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His plays include Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Singing Forest and Small Tragedy. Lucas’ awards include the L.A. Drama Critics Award, an OBIE Award for Best Play and Best Director, and the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.. His screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists and The Dying Gaul, which he also directed. Mr. About the AuthorCraig Lucas is a playwright, screenwriter and director
Together they illustrate the remarkable range and scope of a truly original American playwright.Other plays in this collection include:What I Meant WasUnmemorableThrowing Your VoiceGriefThe Boom BoxBad DreamIf Columbus Does Not Figure in Your Travel PlansBoyfriend RiffCredo. This powerful parable jolts us with questions and doesn't insult us with answers.” Donald Lyons, Wall Street JournalThe Dying Gaul is a fascinating new play! Even more theatrically imaginative and engaging than Prelude to a Kiss! Craig Lucas is writing better than ever these days.” Vincent Canby, New York TimesThis volume contains two of Craig Lucas’s most powerful and provocative full-length playsGod’s Heart and The Dying Gaulwith a suite of nine one-act plays. God’s Heart is a play which dares to say very ugly things from a very moral place, which risks censure in an effort to reach an ugly truth; a play that’s wise to its own inescapable shortcomings and addresses them as part of its subject; a play which ought to have been greeted with exhilaration and joy, for it courageously refuses restraint and risks everything to live up to its impossible-to-live-up-to title.” Tony Kushner, Civilization MagazineBest American play of the year! The Dying Gaul is Craig Lucas’s best work by far
"Contemporary Theater at its best" according to A Customer. Craig Lucas' amazing THE DYING GAUL is the centerpiece of his latest collection of full-length and one-act plays, WHAT I MEANT WAS. Lucas' provocative drama responds to the perils of cyberlife, one of contemporary drama's most recently popular subjects (as in Kopit's Y2K and Marber's CLOSER). However, Lucas delves deeply, chronicling the pain of a sc. Great Lucas Collection As a big fan of Craig Lucas, I love this collection of a few of his plays. Plays are meant to be seen, not read, but this book allows you to study what a skilled writer Lucas is. Perfect for a theater lover or student of play writing.
His plays include Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Singing Forest and Small Tragedy. Craig Lucas is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Mr. His screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists and The Dying Gaul, which he also directed. Lucas’ awards include the L.A. Drama Critics Award, an OBIE Award for Best Play and Best Director, and the Excellence in Literature Award from the Ame