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Author Connolly, John Austin.

Title The boys from Siam / John Austin Connolly ; foreword by Edward Albee
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 119 pages)
Series The Yale drama series
Yale drama series.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: Judgment Day -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Boys from Siam -- Cast of Characters -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- Scene Five -- Scene Six -- Scene Seven -- Scene Eight -- Scene Nine -- Scene Ten -- Scene Eleven -- Scene Twelve
Summary Announcing the 2007 winner of the Yale Drama Series <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">€ <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">John Connolly8217;s The Boys from Siam has been chosen as the first winner of the Yale Drama Series. This play was selected by playwright and contest judge Edward Albee, winner of the Pulitzer prize. Based loosely on the lives of nineteenth-century brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (the source of the term 8220;Siamese twins8221;), The Boys from Siam€ is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. In his foreword, Edward Albee writes that the work is 8220;a beautifully realized concentrated universe. It takes big chances along the way ... and makes us care8212;really care.8221; <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">€ <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">For more information and complete rules for the Yale Drama Series, visit yalebooks.com
Notes Print version record
Subject Conjoined twins -- Drama
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
DRAMA -- General.
Conjoined twins
Genre/Form Drama
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300150346
0300150342
1282437585
9781282437586