Four Short Plays (Days Ahead, The Madness of Lady Bright, This is the Rill Speaking, and Say De Kooning by Lanford Wilson, Wilson, Lanford (1998) Paperback
(Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, li...)
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. A bittersweet portrait of the rock n roll generation at the precise moment they realize the fireworks ended yesterday.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: J.D. Cullom, Michael Gladis, Lola Glaudini, Sarah Hagan, Marin Hinkle, Jay Paulson, Matt Roth and Claudette Southerland.
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Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This...)
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 living playwrights.
Lanford Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri, in 1938 and attended the University of Chicago. A founding member of the Circle Repertory Company in New York, he has seen many of his plays produced in theaters all over the United States and abroad. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Drama Desk Vernon Rice Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and two Obies.
(1. Home Free!
2. The Madness Of Lady Bright
3. LudlowFa...)
1. Home Free!
2. The Madness Of Lady Bright
3. LudlowFair
4. This Is The Rill Speaking
5. Days Ahead
6. Wandering
7. Stoop
8. Sextet (Yes)
9. Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye
10. Victory On Mrs. Dandywine's Island
11. The Great Nebula In Orion
12. The Family Continues
13. Brontosaurus
14. Thymus Vulgaris
15. Breakfast At The Track
16. Say de Kooning
17. A Betrothal
18. Abstinence
19. A Poster Of The Cosmos
20. The Moonshot Tape
21. Eukiah
(Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, li...)
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. A bittersweet portrait of the rock n roll generation at the precise moment they realize the fireworks ended yesterday.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: J.D. Cullom, Michael Gladis, Lola Glaudini, Sarah Hagan, Marin Hinkle, Jay Paulson, Matt Roth and Claudette Southerland.
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In Lanford Wilson’s moving and powerful play an adolesc...)
In Lanford Wilson’s moving and powerful play 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.
Lanford Wilson, American playwright. Member American Academy Arts and Letters, Dramatists Guild American Council.
Background
Wilson, Lanford was born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon, Missouri, United States. Son of Ralph E(ugene) and Violetta (Tate) Wilson.
Education
Attended, San Diego State College, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities (honorary), University Missouri, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities (honorary), Grinnell College, Iowa, 1994.
Doctor of Philosophy in Literature (honorary), Long Island University, 1995.
Career
Playwright, since 1962. Resident playwright, director, co-founder Circuit Repertory Company, New York City, 1969-1995. Instructor playwriting University Houston, 2003—2008.
ABC Yale fellow, 1969. Rockefeller grantee, 1967, 73, Guggenheim grantee, 1970, National Education Association grantee, 1990. Recipient Vernon Rice award, 1966-1967, Institute Arts and Letters award, 1970, Obie award, 1972, 75, 84, 97, Outer Critics Circle award, 1973, Drama Critics Circle award, 1973, 80, Pulitzer prize, 1980, Brandeis award, 1981, John Steinbeck award, 1990, Edward Albee Last Frontier award, 1994, American Academy of Achievement award, 1995, American Association Theatre Critics Best Play award, 1998, Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement award, 2000, William Inge Lifetime Achievement award, 2001.
Inducted into Theater Hall of Fame, 1996, Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, 1998. Recipient Lucille Lortel's Edith Oliver award Sustained Excellence, 2001.
ABC Yale fellow, 1969. Rockefeller grantee, 1967, 73, Guggenheim grantee, 1970, National Education Association grantee, 1990. Recipient Vernon Rice award, 1966-1967, Institute Arts and Letters award, 1970, Obie award, 1972, 75, 84, 97, Outer Critics Circle award, 1973, Drama Critics Circle award, 1973, 80, Pulitzer prize, 1980, Brandeis award, 1981, John Steinbeck award, 1990, Edward Albee Last Frontier award, 1994, American Academy of Achievement award, 1995, American Association Theatre Critics Best Play award, 1998, Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement award, 2000, William Inge Lifetime Achievement award, 2001.
Inducted into Theater Hall of Fame, 1996, Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, 1998. Recipient Lucille Lortel's Edith Oliver award Sustained Excellence, 2001.