The Height of Summer: New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021: Paradise Blue; Cost of Living; Actually; Where Storms Are Born; Selling Kabul; Grand Horizons

New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 is a collection of six plays by living American playwrights that explore the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. The plays feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors and are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into these issues.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 offers a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condition, these plays frequently feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors. These six plays are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. These plays imagine and interrogate pieces of the human experience we are still in the midst of unpacking and understanding. Complete with introductions by each of the authors reflecting on their work, these historic, award-winning, and groundbreaking plays now live in conversation with one another in this unique collection.

Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 offers a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condition, these plays frequently feature complex and boundary-pushing central roles for women actors. These six plays are manifestations of living, American playwrights grappling with and breathing dramatic life into the conflicts and questions at the heart of who we were, who we are, and who we will become. These plays imagine and interrogate pieces of the human experience we are still in the midst of unpacking and understanding. Complete with introductions by each of the authors reflecting on their work, these historic, award-winning, and groundbreaking plays now live in conversation with one another in this unique collection.

Weight: 514g
Dimension: 157 x 234 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350289307