ABSTRACT
A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Nottage's plays, productions, activism, and artistic collaborations to display the extraordinary breadth and depth of her work.
The collection contains chapters on each of her major works, and includes a special three-chapter section devoted to Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The anthology also features an interview about collaboration and creativity with Lynn Nottage and two of her most frequent directors, Seret Scott and Kate Whoriskey.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|20 pages
On the table
Crumbs of freedom and fugitivity – A twenty-first century (re)reading of Crumbs from the Table of Joy
chapter Chapter #|20 pages
Intimate spaces/public places
Locating sites of migration, connection, and identity in Intimate Apparel
chapter Chapter 5|20 pages
“It's all about a rabbit, or it ain't”
The folkloric significations of Lynn Nottage
part |73 pages
Special section: Ruined
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Renegotiating realism
Hybridity of form and political potentiality in Ruined
chapter Chapter 9|18 pages
Land rights and womb rights
Forging difficult diasporic kinships in Ruined
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chapter Chapter 10|20 pages
On creativity and collaboration
A conversation with Lynn Nottage, Seret Scott, and Kate Whoriskey
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