Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822218005
THE STORY: Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a real life with a real man
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN : 9780413773296
"A harrowing new play…just when it seems [IN ARABIA] will settle for the shock value of its raw and violent language and imagery, Mr Adly Guirgis begins to tie all his loose ends together in a grim and sad portrait of life on the streets." New Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a "real" life with a "real" man and abandons him at their local in favour of some cheap Chinese takeout. At the bar is Skank, a failed actor-turned-junkie, who is trying to outlast the rainstorm and get a buyback. De Maris, a seventeen-year-old gun-brandishing single mother wants to learn to turn tricks. She enlists the aid of Chickie, Skank's girlfriend, a young crackhead hooker. But the bar is about to be sold up as the New York real estate boom kicks in. Guirgis' cast of low life have "lack of self-pity" tattooed to their souls. Published to tie in with the Hampstead Theatre's production in April 2003, this is the second play by the writer of Jesus Hopped the A Train - "Shocking, shattering, stunningly well-written" (Daily Telegraph); "Guirgis airs metaphysical ideas seldom touched by British dramatists" (The Times).
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822217992
THE STORY: Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult in the
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822219231
THE STORY: Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-binging shoplifter looking to change her life and her self-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recove
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0571211011
Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822219651
THE STORY: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-chal
Author : Rebecca Claire Gilman
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Middle West
ISBN : 9781583421772
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559369426
“Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast…Guirgis’s rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy.” —Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker Stephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a women’s halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents struggle with addiction, abuse, and mental illness. Between daily therapy sessions, they clash with the staff and each other, form alliances, and fall in love. Harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven roaringly brings to life the experiences of women who society has tried to shuffle out of sight and out of mind.
Author : Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2003-11-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1429921706
Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, Our Lady of 121st Street, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama Jesus Hopped the A Train and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, an Iceman Cometh for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.
Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1101140739
"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale." -Tom Brokaw Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11 world, Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.
