Katori Hall
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Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works (2015) — Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare
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In this volume, her characters are all African American and from the South, mostly Memphis. She writes the dialect and the speech patterns and slang so accurately, so poetically, that when I am alone I sound out the phrases sometimes so I can here the difference between my parts of the South and the people Katori Hall is from and brings to life in these pages.
The plays are brutal. Not gratuitously so, but necessarily so. Because of that, it makes it difficult for me to use them in class. (I teach Performing Arts.) I wish I could, though, because the characters and situations would resonate with my students. Perhaps we can at least use the intro, written by Ms.Hall, to discuss playwriting. Even her Introduction is appealing and engrossing.
Looking forward to reading the next volume.… (mehr)