A new American play to re-open the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs Breath, Boom is Kia Corthron's first play for the Royal Court Theatre. It is a startling acute portrayal of Prix, a hardened female gang member in New York, whose only escape from her narrow, abusive life is an obsession with creating the perfect fireworks display. The play is based heavily on research into the lives of young women who choose to lead violent lives on the streets. It captures the tough and often poetic language that people who inhabit a world cut off from normal existence use to both mask and portray a perilous existence.

"Breath, Boom" (Methuen Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

kia-corthron

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

<p>THE STORY: Six-year-old hyper Kite flies. But his teacher tells his mother, C Ana, that his ever-excitement is a brain disease and urges medication: Ritalin. Not just to calm him down--his jumpiness, C Ana is told, is cerebrally, genetically relat</p>

Seeking the Genesis - Acting Edition

History & Criticism

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Splash Hatch on the E Going Down - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

<p>The highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize examines NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young biracial girl.In Moon and the Mars , set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work, hardship, and camaraderie. Meanwhile, white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting—painfully, transformationally—as the nation divides and marches to war.Corthron's first novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter , won the coveted First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction in 2016. It was championed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Angela Y. Davis, among many others, and received rave reviews in The New York Times Book Review , where it was an Editor's Choice, The Wall Street Journal , and elsewhere.</p>

Moon And The Mars

Seven Stories Press UK

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