THE STORY: Dael Orlandersmith, combines theatre, poetry and music in a powerful, sizzling, fierce symphony of the diverse voices that make up her neighborhood - people drawn from both her life and her imagination. She introduces us to a range of characters - from an elderly Polish Holocaust survivor who has a chance meeting with Billie Holiday; to a poetic young junkie; to a teenage Puerto Rican punk; to a washed-up rock 'n' roll star; to a seventy-year-old New Yorker from Harlem heading to the West Village to see Nina Simone.
"?a short and - by Orlandersmith's hard-earned standards - sweet survey of the people she's bumped into in that city of sharp elbows?one cup of Orlandersmith is worth a gallon of what most other monologists serve up?Orlandersmith assumes the role here of wryly analytical onlooker who can absorb both the pathos and the irony unfolding all around her." - Washington Post. "[Orlandersmith] exquisitely captures the complications of return to a place, your place, which never really wanted you to leave, lest it reflect badly on itself?poetic but clear-eyed?evocative and carefully observed." - Chicago Tribune. "Orlandersmith is a consummate storyteller?her real achievement is to make you aware of the shape of language itself. How words rise and fall, become dense, then light, gently erotic, then tense with rage - like the architecture and energy of a city block." - LA Times.
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Dramatists Play Service Inc. |
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9780822224914 |
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