LIBROS DEL AUTOR: aishah rahman

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  • Only In America
    Aishah Rahman
    ONLY IN AMERICA is oracular, mythic, wicked satire, with outrageous humor and provocative subject matter. In this play, Aishah Rahman achieves a synthesis of Jazz and secular speech, as she creates a language for America’s “invisible women”.ONLY IN AMERICA is set in an imaginary Animal Bureau of Civil Rights in Washington DC, and was written, in part, in reaction to Anita Hill’...
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    16,72 €

  • Mingus Takes (3)
    Aishah Rahman
    MINGUS TAKES (3) consists of three one-acts: SPEAKER’S HEAD, IF ONLY WE KNEW, and UPTOWN! It is dedicated to Charles Mingus Jr’s ingeniousness, his humor and revolutionary spirit, and his great contribution to American classical music more commonly labeled jazz. In SPEAKER’S HEAD, a speaker introduces his concepts on America’s 'eminent world domain.' In IF ONLY WE KNEW, An Afri...
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    17,08 €

  • Unfinished Women Cry In No Man's Land While A Bird Dies In A Gilded Cage
    Aishah Rahman
    UNFINISHED WOMEN deals with the events in a home for unwed mothers on the last day of jazz musician Charlie Parker's life, March 12, 1955. The play digs beyond statistics and sociological theories to find the unarticulated, half-understood longings of teenage mothers. 'UNFINISHED WOMEN is an underground classic. It reaches beyond statistics and sociological theories to find th...
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    15,63 €

  • Chiaroscuro
    Aishah Rahman
    Subtitled 'a light and dark skin comedy,' CHIAROSCURO is set on a cruise ship peopled by black singles where 'pretty' means light-skinned, and all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward.'... there are only a very few dramatists who come immediately to mind when thinking about the major contemporary African American playwri...
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    17,38 €

  • The Mojo And The Sayso
    Aishah Rahman
    Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy.'Aishah Rahman has written an original, engrossing, at times quite beautiful and moving [play].' -Alvin Klein, The New York Times'Like some mythological monster, it’s got the hea...
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    17,17 €