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A Strange Loop
β Scribed by Michael R. Jackson
- Book ID
- 100637511
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 41 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1559369949
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor. Which came first? A Strange Loop is complex, teasing, thrilling." --Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker
Usher is a black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. This blistering musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons--not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head--in an attempt to understand his own strange loop.
β¦ Subjects
Gay dramatists -- Drama
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