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Paula Vogel (1), Lynn Nottage (1), Dario Fo (1), Lillian Hellman (1-2), Cormac McCarthy (1)

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

Fabulation by Lynn Nottage

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman

The Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo

The Counselor by Cormac McCarthy

February 13, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

How I Learned to Drive “Sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson.” I first read this book in college when I was taking an Intro to Theater class in college where among other things I had to read a bunch of plays and see a bunch of performances. I reread it in part because I know there’s a new performance or maybe recent performance out there. The title “How I Learned to Drive” refers specifically to some “driving lessons” with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, Dario Fo, Lillian Hellman, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:94 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cormac McCarthy, Dario Fo, Lillian Hellman, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel ·
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If you ain’t happy, you’ve gotten what I could give.

June 8, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This plays takes place in a Black household in the years after WWII. The longtime matriarch of the Crumb household has died and in her absence a gap forms. First to fill that gap is her sister, a radical Communist and a drunk, who has a kind of sway over the father of the house. Another potential member to fill that gap is the daughter Ernestine, and finally, a German expat named Gerte. This play then deals with what it means to lose someone, to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: crumbs from the table, Lynn Nottage

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:191 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: crumbs from the table, Lynn Nottage ·
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A play about a hard topic to speak about.

May 7, 2017 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I try to keep track of Pulitzer Prize winners, particularly in fiction and drama, because I like to have my pulse on what is winning awards and what I can teach in future classes. I saw that Lynn Nottage’s Sweat was this year’s drama winner and promptly went to my library. Of course, they don’t have it yet. So I decided the next-best thing would be to read her other Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined. In short, Ruined is about what happens to women before, during, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bonnie, drama, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:60 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: bonnie, drama, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize ·
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