John Guare

A Free Man of Color

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John Guare's new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold, and class, racial and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is the mulatto Jacques Cornet, who commands men, seduces women and preens like a peacock. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase brings American rule and racial segregation to the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8021-4566-6
EAN: 9780802145666
Produktnummer: 11065469
Verlag: Grove Atlantic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 101 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.8 cm 150 g
Gewicht: 150

Über den Autor

John Guare is the Tony, Obie, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright of the plays House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Landscape of the Body, and A Few Stout Individuals. He co-edits the Lincoln Center Theater Review, teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama, is a council member of the Dramatists Guild, a trustee of PEN America and received the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.