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.
Foreword: Freedom Is a Debt to Repay; A Legacy to Uphold
Sandra Shannon
Introduction: "Sustaining the Complexity" of Lynn Nottage
Jocelyn L. Buckner
Production History Chronology
Scott Knowles
On the Table: Crumbs of Freedom and Fugitivity – A 21st Century (Re)reading of Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Jaye Austin Williams
"Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner": Choral Aesthetics in Mud, River, Stone
Jennifer L. Hayes
Intimate Spaces/Public Places: Locating Sites of Migration, Connection, and Identity in Intimate Apparel
Adrienne Macki Braconi
"It’s All About a Rabbit, or It Ain’t": The Folkloric Fabulations of Lynn Nottage
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Diasporic Desire in Las Meninas
Jocelyn L. Buckner
Vera Stark at the Crossroads of History
Harvey Young
Special Section on Ruined
Melodrama, Sensation, and Activism in Ruined
Jennifer-Scott Mobley
Renegotiating Realism: Hybridity of Form and Political Potentiality in Ruined
Jeff Paden
Land Rights and Womb Rights: Forging Difficult Diasporic Kinships in Ruined
Esther J. Terry
Interview On Creativity and Collaboration: A Conversation with Lynn Nottage, Seret Scott, and Kate Whoriskey
Jocelyn L. Buckner
Afterword: Lynn Nottage’s Futurity
Soyica Colbert
Biography
Buckner, Jocelyn L.