Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays

by Lynn Nottage

Book Overview

This collection includes Lynn Nottage's best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as "a complex and thought provoking new play." Also included are Mud, River, Stone, Poof, Por'Knockers and her latest work, Las Meninas, inspired by the playwright's research into the African presence in 17th century Europe.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559362146
• ISBN13: 9781559362146
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Continuum

Lynn Nottage's work is a crucial contribution to American literature. She writes her plays with an intricacy, like a seamstress meticulously reweaving and tailoring an old wool suit for a new body. Referances to African American women playwrights who came before her, ie. Lorrainne Hansberry, Alice Childress, Adrienne Kennedy--are too easy. I think what Arthur Miller did for American theater, returning us to our backyards and digging up the soil to expose the roots, can easily be said of Nottage.