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WILSON, Lanford

Anton Chekhov, translated by Lanford Wilson

Classics

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

"Lanford Wilson is the rare dramatist, witty and humorous, who sees all his characters from the inside…Balm is life itself trapped in a play."--New York
Balm in Gilead and Other Plays features Lanford Wilson's first full-length play. It takes place in upper Manhattan at a greasy, slum diner, Frank's cafe, where drug addicts, sex works, and petty criminals come to escape their boredom and suffering.

Balm in Gilead and Other Plays (Dramabook)

Dramas & Plays

Hill and Wang

Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend. 
Their determined struggle toward emotional honesty and liberation--by no means guaranteed at the play's ambiguous end--exemplifies the strength, humor, and complexity of all of Lanford Wilson's work and confirms his standing as one of America's greatest playwrights.

Burn This

Hill Wang

The Hot L Baltimore: A Play

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

"Mr. Wilson handles the collage technique so beautifully that we leave convinced no other method would have served half so well. This reviewer liked Rimers for its fluidity, for its language, for its almost musical sense of pattern."--The New York Times
The mystery is, who he is, who murdered him and what were the circumstances? And to solve it, Wilson looks at the outsides and insides of his tiny, Middle Western town. He looks at a middle-aging woman who falls in love with the young man who comes to work in her café. He looks at a coarse, nasty woman mistreating her senile mother, who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil and headed for blood-spilling. He looks at a tender relationship between a young man a dreamy, crippled girl. But Wilson sees far more than this. He is grasping the very fabric of Bible Belt America, with its catchword morality (“virgin,” “God-fearing”) and its capability for the vicious. He senses the rhythm of its life and the cruelty it can impose. He understands the speech patterns of its loveless gossips, its sex-hungry boys, its compassionless preachers, its car-conscious blondes. In the end his portrait of Eldritch is full length, and the truth of its revelations will be pondered long after the stage lights have dimmed and the play has ended.

The Rimers of Eldritch: And Other Plays (Mermaid Dramabook Series)

In Lanford Wilson's masterful play Fifth of July, part of the Talley Trilogy, a group of friends who came of age in the sixties have a reunion in an old Missouri farmhouse, where their reminiscences reveal shattered hopes, buried resentments, lost dreams, and the unhealed trauma of the Vietnam War.
"The characters are mostly flamboyant, their dialogue crackles with laugh-inducing lines and we find ourselves dazzled by Wilson's virtuoso writing." - Hollywood Reporter

Fifth of July: A Play

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Angels Fall: A Play

Noonday Press

Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders "…is original and brilliant, and sends you out on to the street with your mind spinning cartwheels ...in the sheer complexity of its thought and feeling it is one of the most interesting American plays in years, and the writing is absolutely masterly. – The (London) Times Saturday Review

The Mound Builders: A Play

In Lanford Wilson's moving and powerful play, Redwood Curtain, an adolescent Eurasian girl―the child of a union between an American GI and a Vietnamese woman, adopted by a wealthy California couple and obsessive in her search for her father―is drawn to the redwood forests of northern California, where thousands of Vietnam veterans have taken refuge to escape the harsh realities of life in America.

Redwood Curtain: A Play (Dramabook)

A collection of plays by the well-known playwright Lanford Wilson. Includes "The Hot L Baltimore", "Serending Louie","The Mound Builders" and "Angels Fall" Photo of one production on the dust jacket.

Lanford Wilson: Collected Works Volume II, 1970-1983

SK A Smith and Kraus Book

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