The Last Night of Ballyhoo / Alfred Uhry → Обява 24264591

The Last Night of Ballyhoo / Alfred Uhry

Английски език.

"To
all appearances, The Last Night of Ballyhoo declares itself to be
nothing more than an old-fashioned, family-centered, living-room comedy.
The time is 1939, when the most important thing in young Lala Levy’s
life is the Atlanta premiere of Gone With the Wind. More urgent to her
widowed mother, Boo, is the question of who will be Lala’s date for the
last night of Ballyhoo, the formal dance that crowns the party season
for Atlanta’s Jewish Society....

"A darker tone emerges, though.
Without ever departing from its basic structure as a rich, often
hilarious romantic comedy, Ballyhoo exposes the previously unexplored
territory of Southern anti-Semitism and how Jews turn it against each
other and themselves....

"Part of the triumph of The Last Night
of Ballyhoo is that Uhry allows ethical dilemmas and class tensions to
arise without turning his characters into stick figures or the drama
into a predetermined ‘issue’ play. Also remarkable is Uhry’s gift for
creating a stage full of characters so rich they all seem like leading
roles."

—Don Shewey, American Theatre

ALFRED UHRY’s first
play, Driving Miss Daisy, opened at Playwrights Horizons Theatre in New
York City and went on to win many awards, including the Outer Critics
Circle Award and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. For the film
version, he won the Academy Award®. Other films include Mystic Pizza and
Rich In Love. Mr. Uhry’s second play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo,
commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics,
opened on Broadway in February 1997. It won Best Play by the American
Theatre Critics Association, the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama
Desk, as well as the 1997 Tony Award.

Printed in the U.S.A.

***

1997 TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY

1997 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR REST BROADWAY PLAY 199/ DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD FDR DISTINGUISHED PRODOCTIDN OF A PLAY

IS
bittersweet romantic comedy set in Atlanta in 1939. on the eve of World
War II and the opening night of Cone with the M, mired Uhry's Ihe last
Night ol Ballyhoo kih in a very personal way with being Jewish in the
South, depicting the prejudices that existed between German-American
Jews and "the other kind."

"Achingly beautiful....However
conventional this essentially one-set Southern family drama may look on
the surface, the play is in fact surprising, luminous and powerful. It
will most likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry’s
Brifing Miss Daisy" —Laurie Winer, losingeles limes

"Ballyhoo is a warm, wise and altogether winning new American play."

—Michael Sommers, Ihe Star-letlger

"You’ll have a ball at Ballyhoo." —Howard Hisseli. New fork Daily News

"A simply wonderful play. Ihe last Night olBallyhoo is a true event in the theatre.’’ —Liz Smith

ALFRED
IİHRY is best known as the author of Driving Miss Baisi winner of the
1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 1990 Academy Awards for Best Picture
and Best Adaptation of a Screenplay. He is currently at work on Mí, a
new musical for Harold Prince, the Last Night of Ballyhoo is his second
play.

COVER DESIGN 1) Dill DEVINE С A S D N

THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

Забележка: Здраво книжно тяло, без забележки в текста.