Announcing the 2007 winner of the Yale Drama SeriesJohn Connolly’s The Boys from Siam has been chosen as the first winner of the Yale Drama Series. This play was selected by playwright and contest judge Edward Albee, winner of the Pulitzer prize. Based loosely on the lives of nineteenth-century brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (the source of the term “Siamese twins”), The Boys from Siam is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. In his foreword, Edward Albee writes that the work is “a beautifully realized concentrated universe. It takes big chances along the way . . . and makes us care—really care.”For more information and complete rules for the Yale Drama Series, visit yalebooks.com
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Based loosely on the lives of Chang and Eng Bunker, the nineteenth-century brothers and source of the term 'Siamese twins', this play is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. It is the first winner of the "Yale Drama Series".
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"Fascinating. . . . Like Beckett, Connolly uses literate wit and a gift for simple but evocative stage pictures to make his sometimes bleak vision palatable."—Jack Helbig, Booklist

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780300141856
Publisert
2008-10-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Yale University Press
Vekt
204 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

John Austin Connolly lives and writes in Dublin. His previous works have been showcased at the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Dublin Temple Bar Arts Festival. A recent short story has been short-listed for the 2007 Francis MacManus short story competition in Ireland.