Our Lady of 121st Street

✍ Scribed by Guirgis, Stephen Adly

• Book ID: 110464412
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781429921701

✦ Synopsis

Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, Our Lady of 121st Street, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama Jesus Hopped the A Train and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, an Iceman Cometh for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.