Lanford Wilson (1937–2011)
Autor de Burn This
Sobre El Autor
Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri, and began to write plays while at the University of Chicago. In 1969 he helped found the off-Broadway Circle Repertory Company, becoming its chief playwright. He thus has had the rare opportunity to develop his craft in collaboration with a permanent company of mostrar más actors and a theater where he could try out and, if necessary, revise his plays. Like The Hot l Baltimore (1973), which ran for 1,166 performances and set an off-Broadway record for a nonmusical, many of Wilson's plays are vaguely realistic in manner, emphasizing characters over plot, and featuring likeable misfits and deviants. Fifth of July (1978), Talley's Folly (1979), and Talley and Son (1981) are all about the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. Fifth of July, a Broadway smash hit, deals with people who were "burned" physically and psychologically by the 1960s but who can still dream of a democratic America. Talley's Folly, another Broadway hit, is an unabashed love story about the Jewish outsider, Matt, and the misfit of the Protestant Talley family, Sally. Talley and Son tells of the financial and other machinations of three generations of Talleys. This story of meanness and greed has often been compared with Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. .Angels Fall (1982) concerns a group of people brought together in a mission in northwestern New Mexico by a nuclear accident. Although it seems at first that the play will comment on an impending apocalypse, its actual themes deal with daily questions: how to live and love, how to teach and learn, and how to find one's vocation. Burn This (1987) is the story of a young dancer, Anna, who is profoundly distressed by the death of her gay collaborator. Her life is transformed by the bizarre and explosive arrival of Pale, the dead man's older brother. Shocking, outrageous, and larger than life, the play presents Wilson's views on art, human sexuality, and love. It is a poetic and cataclysmic work in which art is seen as a sacrament, as an outward sign for inward, chaotic, and exhilarating truths. Burn This, which opened on Broadway in the fall of 1987, is Wilson's masterpiece. Lanford Wilson is a distinctly American playwright whose works reflect his roots in the Ozarks as well as in his adopted home, New York City. The esteem in which he is held is attested to by the respect of numerous critics and by the many awards he has received: a Vernon Rice Award, several Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships, the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, Obies for The Hot l Baltimore and The Mound Builders (1976), and a Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1980 for Talley's Folly. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Sans Peur Photography for the New York Innovative Theatre Awards (Wikipedia)
Series
Obras de Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson, Vol. 1: Collected Plays, 1965-1970 (Contemporary American Playwrights) (1996) 31 copias
Lanford Wilson: Collected Works, Vol. 3: The Talley Trilogy (Contemporary American Playwrights) (1999) 18 copias
Lanford Wilson: Collected Works, Vol. 2: 1970-1983 (Contemporary American Playwrights) (1998) 14 copias
The Moonshot Tape 3 copias
Collected Works Volume III 1970-1983 2 copias
The Great Nebula in Orion 2 copias
Four Short Plays (Days Ahead, The Madness of Lady Bright, This is the Rill Speaking, and Say De Kooning (1994) 2 copias
Wandering 2 copias
Home Free! 2 copias
Ludlow Fair 2 copias
Sextet (Yes) 1 copia
Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye 1 copia
Stoop 1 copia
The Family Continues 1 copia
Breakfast at the Track 1 copia
Days Ahead 1 copia
A Poster of the Cosmos 1 copia
Eukiah 1 copia
This Is the Rill Speaking 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Contribuidor — 178 copias
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Contribuidor — 80 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Wilson, Lanford
- Nombre legal
- Wilson, Lanford Eugene
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1937-04-13
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2011-03-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Lebanon, Missouri, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Wayne, New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Springfield, Missouri, USA
Ozark, Missouri, USA
San Diego, California, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA
Sag Harbor, New York, USA - Educación
- Southwest Missouri State University
San Diego State College
University of Chicago - Ocupaciones
- playwright
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2004)
- Premios y honores
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2004)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1974)
Pultizer Prize (Drama|1980) - Agente
- Susan Schulman Literary Agency
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- Obras
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- También por
- 11
- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #17,521
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 20
- ISBNs
- 85
- Favorito
- 2