Lynn Nottage
"Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won't expect."â€”,Time Out New York,"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture, and historyâ€”and the startling simplicity of desireâ€”with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion."â€”Paula Vogel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize,In her first new play since the critically acclaimed ,Ruined,, Lynn Nottage examines the legacy of African Americans in Hollywood in a dramatic stylistic departure from her previous work. Fluidly incorporating film and video elements into her writing for the first time, Nottage's comedy tells the story of Vera Stark, a headstrong African American maid and budding actress who has a tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold onto her career. Stirring audiences out of complacency by tackling racial stereotyping in the entertainment industryâ€”a topic that remains largely unexplored in mainstream arts and entertainmentâ€”Nottage highlights the paradox of black actors in 1930s Hollywood while jumping back and forward in time and location in this uniquely theatrical narrative.,Lynn Nottage,'s plays include the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning ,Ruined,; ,Intimate Apparel,, the most widely produced play of the 2005â€“06 theater season in America; ,Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine,; ,Crumbs from the Table of Joy,; ,Las Meninas,; ,Mud, River, Stone,; ,Por'knockers,; and ,POOF!
Plays,Drama,Plays,Theatre,Cultural,African American,Feminism
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