Böcker av Phillip Howze

In the imaginative works included in his book, Rarities & Wonders: Plays, Phillip Howze weaves together an array of disclosures, marvels, and meanderings to reveal the "intelligent, unruly" (New York Times) voice of a formidable new writer. Collected together here, and for the first-time, Rarities & Wonders is a singular assembly of "sharp and incisive" (Talkin' Broadway) contemporary American plays.Phillip Howze is an American writer and theater maker whose plays include Self Portraits (BRIC-Arts Media) and Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr). He's currently commissioned to write new works for the American Repertory Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, and Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 where he's also a Resident Writer. He was recently appointed the inaugural Associate Senior Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University's Theater, Dance & Media program.¿This book is a part of the Sledgehammer Series with Three Plays by Christina Anderson, Doodles from the Margins: Three Plays by Hansol Jung, and Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. The Sledgehammer Series lives within Tripwire's mission, with a specific focus on challenging how theater can live visually on the page.

Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their world is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade, offering gifts of language, medicine, art, and commerce. As the lure of development blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate, threatening their long-held values, community, and humanity. In a comic spectacle to challenge the pretense of altruism and civilization, Frontieres Sans Frontieres asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest? How to comprehend when the promise of language matures to the tyranny of words? Who wins and who loses in a war to hold on to the people and places we love?