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Title: Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht ISBN: 1-55970-420-9 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 10 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: St Joan of the Stockyards- Bertolt Brecht
Comment: St Joan is one of Brecht's less well-known plays. Set in Chicago, it is the story of Joan Dark and is the modern version of the biblical story, Joan of Arc. Joan is a leader of a religious group, the Black Straw Hats. Throughout the play, she preaches to common-folk and the "meat kings" of Chigago, namely Mauler, Cridle and Lennox. Although criticised, her support for the needy is much appeciated. The play consists of lots of monologues, linked by short sections of dialogue. Joan uses biblical phrases and terms in her preaching such as "Oh ye of little faith" and words like "ordain" and "salvation". The structure of this play makes it ideal to be used for monolgues, after a bit of editing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Brechts greatest Chicago play
Comment: This play, one of Brecht's best if least known, is perhaps the first postmodern classic. It combines the dramaturgy of a tragedy and a comedy and a passion play. It makes an attempt (years before todays financial tv programs) to make the market and its affairs excitingly dramatic. This new translation by Ralph Manheim, arguably Brecht's most accomplished translator, does much to save the text from earlier mistranslations. This year (2001) there will be an all star performance of the new translation in Chicago, the city in whose Stockyards and at whose Board of Trade the Play was originally set. This could be the seminal Brecht performance of the year!
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Title: Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics) by Bernard Shaw, Stanley Weintraub ISBN: 0140437916 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Seascape. by Edward Albee ISBN: 0822210045 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe ISBN: 0930452860 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Barbara Bray ISBN: 0413695409 Publisher: Methuen Drama Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Another Antigone. by A. R. Gurney ISBN: 0822200511 Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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