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We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Yea (Modern Classics)

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Yea (Modern Classics)

Current price: $14.95
Publication Date: February 11th, 2021
Publisher:
Methuen Drama
ISBN:
9781350146402
Pages:
144

Description

"Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past.." New York Times

A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling?

Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave.
We Are Proud To Present . . . premiered off-Broadway at Soho Rep in 2012.

This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Leonor Faber-Jonker.

About the Author

Jackie Sibblies Drury: Plays include Marys Seacole (OBIE Award), Fairview (2019 Pulitzer Prize), ?Really, ?Social Creatures, and?We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.?The presenters of her plays include Young Vic, Lincoln Center Theatre, Soho Rep., Berkeley Rep, New York City Players & Abrons Arts Center, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Company One, and Bush Theatre. Drury has developed her work at Sundance, Bellagio Center, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, Bushwick Starr, LARK, and MacDowell Colony, among others.? She has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Jerome Fellowship at The LARK, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and?a Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama.