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Lanford Wilson
Biography:
Born 1937 in Lebanon, MO. Wilson graduated from San Diego State
College and the University of Chicago before taking up residence in New York City. He was
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| Abstinence
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| Angels Fall
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| Balm in Gilead and Other Plays
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| A
Betrothal
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| Brontosaurus
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Burn This
Set in a chic loft on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan, Wilson's electrifying play shows the tension that erupts when
people from very different worlds collide. A penetrating exposition of
four violently opposing characters who are scrambling to regain control
over their lives.
Paperback (October 1988)
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Lanford Wilson:
Collected Full-Length Plays- Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, Talley & Son
"Wilson didn't begin what became,
ultimately, a tetralogy with the idea of creating a play cycle. He just
wanted to write a play set in the late 1970s that reflected in some way
the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate letdown much of young America was
feeling. But in writing what became the brilliant and moving Fifth of
July, Wilson summoned up a world so evocative and rich in history - the
world of the eccentric Talley family, leading citizens of little Lebanon,
Missouri - that he couldn't help exploring it further. The resultant
four-play cycle captures the Talleys' foibles and follies as thoroughly -
and as entertainingly - as J. D. Salinger's set of stories and short
novels did the Glass family. Wilson goes Salinger one better, perhaps, by
setting three plays - Talley's Folly, Talley & Son, and A
Tale Told on the same night, July 4, 1944, in different parts of the
Talley estate. Gathering all four plays into the third volume of Wilson's
collected plays, the publisher also has Wilson introduce each of
them." (Jack Helbig, American Library Association)
Paperback Vol 3 (April 1999)
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Lanford Wilson: Collected Plays 1965-1970
"From the beginning, Lanford Wilson has
had a fabulous ear for American dialogue - not merely American speech, but
the way Americans converse in fragmentary, machine-gun bursts or in long,
lonely, digressive monologues that everyone else only half listens to. It
didn't matter whether Wilson was creating a quiet or noisy moment: he
could conjure the mood in a line or two or even in just a pause. This gift
and the knack for recognizable but unstereotypical characterization helped
Wilson step easily from scruffy, small-cast one-acts to longer works
requiring more actors, space, and rehearsal. In his first produced long
play, the 24-character slice of New York's lower depths Balm in Gilead
(1965), Wilson handled dialogue like a master, overlapping junkie rants
and hustler complaints with a confidence that belied his youth. This
collection includes five early long plays, from Balm in Gilead to Lemon
Sky (1970). While Wilson introduces each autobiographically, a
reverential essay by Village Voice critic Michael Feingold introduces them
all." (Jack Helbig, American Library Association)
Paperback (October 1996)
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| Lanford Wilson: Collected Plays
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Lanford Wilson:
Collected Works 1970-1983
This is the third volume of Smith and Kraus'
publication of the complete works of Pulitzer Prize Winner playwright
Lanford Wilson. The plays in this volume are The Hot L Baltimore, Serenading
Louie, The Mound Builders, and Angels Fall.
Paperback (March 1999)
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A Comfortable House:
Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason and the Circle Repertory Theatre
"Playwright Lanford Wilson and director Marshall W. Mason worked
together on 38 productions over a 23-year period (1964-1987) and were
cofounders of the Circle Repertory Company of New York in 1969. This book
explores that collaboration fully, through interviews with Wilson, Mason
and members of the "Circle Rep." Drafts of scripts, and reviews
and articles on the plays and the men, reveal the "lyric
realism" that both Wilson and Mason say underlies their work.
Includes an examination of each play the two worked on (particularly the
so-called Talley series) and a comparison of the forms and themes." (Book
News, Inc. Portland, OR)
Hardcover (February 1993)
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| Lanford Wilson:
The Early Plays, 1965-1970
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Fifth
of July: A Play
Paperback (April 1985)
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| Four Short
Plays
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| The Gingham
Dog
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| The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other
Plays
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| The Hot L
Baltimore
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| Lemon
Sky
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| The Moonshot Tape and A Poster of the
Cosmos
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| The Mound
Builders
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| The Rimers of
Eldritch
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| The Sand Castle and Three Other
Plays
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| Serenading
Louie
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Talleys Folly
Paperback (December 1980)
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| Thymus
Vulgaris
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Lanford Wilson 21 Short Plays - 21 Short Plays
Paperback (May 1993)
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