Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593762941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Three Powerhouses Travis It's extremely difficult to find an author's collection with such consistently good work. Every playwright has their duds, but if Rajiv Joseph has any, they're not here. The book itself, is light and very easy to read, but it's really the plays that make it so special.I performed Gruesome Playground Injuries as Doug last year and the play captured my imagination completely. I had read it before auditioning and found it to be a completely engaging read. Quick, easy, and memorable. Doug and Kayleen's relationship is so beautiful and easy to relate to that I defy anybody to feel like the story does not apply to them. It's a story that the audi. Peter J. Orvetti said Three very different plays. This collection offers three plays that shift between the real and the surreal, in three very different worlds.My favorite of the three is "Animals Out of Paper", which focuses on an angry artist and her brilliant, cocky, yet insecure teenage protege, brought together by a love of -- or compulsion with -- origami. "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is the most fantastical of the three, with the ghosts of a tiger and Uday Hussein shifting in and out of the lives of two young U.S. servicemen during the American occupation of Iraq. It is the most ambitious of the three, and is largely successful, if a bit hard to fully grasp on the page.. Based solely on Bengal Tiger I bought this book based solely on the fact I wanted to read Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. When I was living in L.A. years ago, I remember a buzz going around town about this play. That's pretty impressive, considering L.A. is movie town.Bengal Tiger has everything. It will make you think, laugh, cry, squirm you name it.Bengal Tiger also gets into politics. The play focuses on the Iraq War and some of the questions that should've been asked by both governments.The characters are very colorful. In order for a play to be successful, you need to have uneven characters. Bengal Tiger accomplishes that.
This volume gathers together for the first time his three major works to date.Included herein are his latest play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, which charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another’s love and the cumulative effect of such damage; Animals Out of Paper, a subtle, elegant, yet bracing examination of the artistic impulse and those in its thrall, which follows a world-famous origamist as she becomes the unwitting mentor to a troubled young prodigy, even as she must deal with her own loss of inspiration; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a darkly comedic drama that looks on as the lives of two American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, and a tiger intersect on the streets of Baghdad.. Rajiv Joseph is one of today’s most acclaimed young playwrights. The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award, he is an artist to watch