| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 98 pages) |
| Series |
The Yale drama series |
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Yale drama series.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Characters -- Prologue -- Act 1 -- Act 2 |
| Summary |
The 2018 winner of the Yale Drama Series competition is a riveting exploration of family and death Set in Kentucky, this compelling drama centers around a Japanese-American family reunited as their matriarch undergoes cancer treatment. The father, James, is a recovering alcoholic seeking redemption, and the two daughters are struggling to overcome their differences--Sophie is an ardent born-again Christian, while Hiro lives a single's life in New York City. John, an old high school classmate of Hiro's who is now a single dad, worries about leaving a legacy for his son. Wry and bittersweet, God Said This vividly captures the complexities of a familial reconciliation in the throes of crisis and looks deeply at the meaning of family--Japanese, Southern, and otherwise. This is the first Yale Drama Series winner chosen by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, who describes the play as conveying "a deeply felt sense of the universal--of the perfection of our parents' flawed love for each other and for us; for the ways in which the approach of death can order the meaning of a human life." |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2019) |
| Subject |
Japanese American families -- Kentucky -- Drama
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Parent and child -- Kentucky -- Drama
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DRAMA -- American -- General.
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Parent and child
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Japanese American families
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Kentucky
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic drama
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Drama
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Domestic drama.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Akhtar, Ayad, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9780300249217 |
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0300249217 |
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