The myopia and other plays /

The myopia and other plays /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Greenspan, David, 1956-
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical performances Critical performances (University of Michigan Press)
Subject:	Greenspan, David, -- 1956- Greenspan, David, -- 1956- American drama. American drama. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954780

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Other authors / contributors:	Robinson, Marc, 1962-
ISBN:	0472051733 9780472051731 1280880465 9781280880469 9780472028511 0472028510 9780472071739 0472071734
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Playwright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. His numerous accolades include a Guggenheim fellowship and four Obie Awards for his acting and writing, and most recently a fifth Obie for Sustained Achievement. Tony Kushner once declared Greenspan "probably all-around the most talented theater artist of my generation," and the New York Times has called his performances "irresistible." The Myopia and Other Plays brings together five of Greenspan's most important works, accompanied by a critical introduction and new interview with the playwright. Greenspan's work--often semiautobiographical, always psychologically intense--deals with issues of memory, family, doubt, and sexuality. The plays in this collection take particular interest in the motivations for erotic and aesthetic expression, forces inextricably linked in Greenspan's world. Critic and scholar Marc Robinson's informative introduction and lively interview with Greenspan further increase the collection's appeal to lovers of inventive playwriting, as well as students and scholars in the fields of Performance Studies, English, American Studies, and LGBT Studies.
Other form:	Print version: 9786613721778
Standard no.:	9786613721778 10.3998/mpub.3871892

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The HOME Show Pieces
Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain
She Stoops to Comedy
The Argument
The Myopia, an epic burlesque of tragic proportion
An Interview with David Greenspan
Chronology