The Creative Spirit

Synopsis

Focusing on the collaborative and creative processes that go into productions,The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatreintroduces students to the theatre through the plays themselves and the people who write them, create them, and act in them. The book provides a rich context for each play with a discussion of the playwright's other works, sources for the play, timelines that present historical and cultural background, and a section on a particular production of the play to give students a sense of the theatre industry at close hand.The Creative Spiritincludes complete scripts of five plays: August Wilson'sJoe Turner's Come and Gone, Wakako Yamauchi'sAnd the Soul Shall Dance, Tony Kushner'sAngels in America, Milcha Sanchez-Scott'sDog Lady, and Nilo Cruz'sAnna in the Tropics.