Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition). Robert O'Hara
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- Издательство: Ingram(2020)
- ISBN: 9781559368049
- Страниц: 126
- Язык: Английский
- Жанры: Этнография, Зарубежная драматургия
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• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production of Playwrights Horizons’ season.• O’Hara is also a director, and has directed all three productions of Bootycandy so far.• Play is structured as a collection of short sketches, which has earned it comparisons to George C. Wolfe’s play The Colored Museum (1986).• Play is about the experience of growing up gay and black. Should appeal to readers interested in African American content, LGBT content, and especially those interested in African American LGBT content. • O'Hara's est-known previous play is Insurrection: Holding History, which premiered at The Public Theater in 1996. • O'Hara has worked at theaters all over the country as a director. Directed the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays at McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) and The Public Theater. He won a 2006 Obie Award for directing In the Continuum by Danai Gurira at Primary Stages, Off-Broadway.
