Prodigal son

Title
  1. Prodigal son / John Patrick Shanley.
Published by
  1. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2016.
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Shanley, John Patrick

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Description
  1. vi, 75 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "'What I admire most is that his plays are beautifully well made, economical, sharp and coherent. He's not a misanthrope, but he's in pursuit of why people behave as badly as they do along with having a great compassion for them. That's an unusual and interesting combination.'--Tony Kushner, on John Patrick Shanley When a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx finds himself shipped off to a private school in New Hampshire, the adjustment to the alien environment will lead to his ultimate dissolution or redemption. Teachers in the affluent institution do not know what to make of the new boisterous student, though the challenge really lies in his self-perception. Like his most celebrated play, Doubt, the author has based this new work on his own personal experiences of growing up as a teenager in the South Bronx and his time spent at a prep school in New England. Shanley has created an elemental study of a young's man search for his place in the world. John Patrick Shanley's plays include Outside Mullingar, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, and Dirty Story, along with his "Church and State" trilogy, Doubt, Defiance, and Storefront Church. For his play Doubt, he received both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has nine films to his credit, including the five-time Oscar-nominated Doubt, and Moonstruck, which received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The Writers Guild of America awarded Shanley the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing."--
Subject
  1. American drama
  2. Interpersonal relations
  3. DRAMA > American
  4. FICTION > Coming of Age
  5. PSYCHOLOGY > Interpersonal Relations
Genre/Form
  1. Drama.
  2. Bildungsromans.
Call number
  1. JFD 16-4603
Note
  1. "A play"--Cover.
Author
  1. Shanley, John Patrick, author.
Title
  1. Prodigal son / John Patrick Shanley.
Publisher
  1. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2016.
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Other form:
  1. Online version: Shanley, John Patrick, author. Prodigal son. First edition. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2016 9781559368520 (DLC) 2016009453
LCCN
  1. 2016003256
ISBN
  1. 9781559365260 (paperback)
  2. 1559365269 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 16-4603
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