1st Edition

A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage

Edited By Jocelyn L. Buckner Copyright 2016
    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.