{"title":"Rebecca Gilman","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the thought-provoking plays of Rebecca Gilman, exploring contemporary social issues with sharp wit and unflinching honesty. Perfect for fans of Arthur Miller and Caryl Churchill. Discover her powerful dramas.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"spinning-into-butter-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571209323","title":"Spinning into Butter","description":"Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students, Sarah Matthews, who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African-American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent racist on campus forces Sarah, along with other faculty members and students, to explore her feelings about racism, leading to surprising discoveries and painful insights that will rivet and provoke the reader as perhaps no play since David Mamet's Oleanna has done.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520496869649,"sku":"GOR001828915","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571209327.jpg?v=1751073036"},{"product_id":"sweetest-swing-in-baseball-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571224760","title":"The Sweetest Swing in Baseball","description":"Dana's the toast of the art world - a hot property. So when her work hits a crisis she goes into decline. Holed up in a psychiatric hospital, she's looking for help. It comes, not from her insurance company, but from some unlikely friends and the inspirational swing of baseball legend Darryl Strawberry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550228029713,"sku":"GOR001742930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642142368017,"sku":"GOR001743877","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762406625553,"sku":"CIN0571224768G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571224768.jpg?v=1751326970"},{"product_id":"boy-gets-girl-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571209279","title":"Boy Gets Girl","description":"A new play by Time magazine's number one playwright for 2000. 'With Spinning into Butter, her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail. Not just a gripping play but also an important one.' Time First produced by Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2000, the play will receive its British premiere in 2001.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583650603281,"sku":"GOR000990397","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352919937297,"sku":"CIN0571209270G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52707516580113,"sku":"GOR004182622","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571209270.jpg?v=1750847123"},{"product_id":"the-glory-of-living-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571199983","title":"The The Glory of Living","description":"A play about the darker side of the American experience. Fifteen-year-old Lisa swaps an Alabama trailer-trash existence with her prostitute mother for marriage to an abusive psychopath. We meet her at 18, for the last time, after she has been convicted of multiple murders,","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49606500876561,"sku":"GOR013079091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639917486353,"sku":"GOR003286554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352799121681,"sku":"CIN0571199984VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50356259553553,"sku":"CIN0571199984G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003672330513,"sku":"NIN9780571199983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571199984.jpg?v=1750911577"},{"product_id":"luna-gale-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571327423","title":"Luna Gale","description":"Caroline Cox has been working in the Department of Human Services for twenty-five years. She thinks troubled teenagers Peter and Karlie, the parents of newborn Luna Gale, are a typical case. But she discovers an array of unspoken motives amongst all the parties with an interest in Luna's future. Everybody believes they offer the best solution, but their positions are diametrically opposed... and Caroline has responsibility for determining the outcome. With events accelerating and Caroline uncovering more of the truth, her conclusions begin to look startlingly unconventional - even to her.  Rebecca Gilman's Luna Gale received its UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in June 2015.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49654374826257,"sku":"GOR006953520","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50748678373649,"sku":"CIN0571327427G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51436433211665,"sku":"GOR012631543","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571327427.jpg?v=1771495760"},{"product_id":"spinning-into-butter-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571199846","title":"Spinning Into Butter","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet on a college campus in Vermont, \u003ci\u003eSpinning into Butter\u003c\/i\u003e is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent racist on campus forces Sarah, along with other faculty members and students, to explore her feelings about racism, leading to surprising discoveries and painful insights that will rivet and provoke the reader as perhaps no play since David Mamet's Oleanna has done.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpinning into Butter\u003c\/i\u003e had its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in May 1999 and will open at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York in April 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e ter in New York in April 2000.ter in New York in April 2000.ter in New York in April 2000.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49981697130769,"sku":"CIN0571199844G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50529224982801,"sku":"CIN0571199844VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003669512465,"sku":"NIN9780571199846","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52957764288785,"sku":"CIN0571199844A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53022809784593,"sku":"GOR014700823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571199844.jpg?v=1751104299"},{"product_id":"broken-in-the-best-possible-way-signed-autographed-copy-book-lawson-jenny-9781250809698","title":"Broken (in the best possible way) - Signed \/ Autographed Copy","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50121061400849,"sku":"CIN125080969XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52493711835409,"sku":"CIN125080969XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/125080969X.jpg?v=1751335715"},{"product_id":"spinning-into-butter-a-play-book-gilman-rebecca-9780739412183","title":"Spinning Into Butter, A Play","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50151621525777,"sku":"CIN0739412183G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51322620870929,"sku":"CIN0739412183VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0739412183.jpg?v=1750848227"},{"product_id":"heart-is-a-lonely-hunter-book-rebecca-gilman-9780822224556","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50313019490577,"sku":"CIN0822224550G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822224550.jpg?v=1750818988"},{"product_id":"boy-gets-girl-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571199839","title":"Boy Gets Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the dilemma facing Theresa Bedell, a reporter in New York, in Rebecca Gilman's tensely fascinating new play. When Theresa goes on an awkward blind date with a friend of a friend, she sees no reason to continue the relationship--but the man, an attractive fellow named Tony, thinks otherwise. While Theresa is at first annoyed yet flattered by his continuing attention, her attitude gradually changes to one of fear and fury when he starts violently to menace her and those around her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In brilliantly delineating the kind of terror a woman in full control of her life feels when everything around her suddenly seems to be a threat, Gilman probes the dark side of relationships in the 1990s with the rich insight and compelling characterizations that have distinguished her earlier plays and made her one of the most exciting young playwrights working today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50355496255761,"sku":"CIN0571199836A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50790059901201,"sku":"CIN0571199836G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50905533284625,"sku":"GOR007594842","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003674689809,"sku":"NIN9780571199839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416005083409,"sku":"CIN0571199836VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52661652193553,"sku":"NLS9780571199839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571199836.jpg?v=1751293852"},{"product_id":"boy-gets-girl-a-play-in-two-acts-book-rebecca-gilman-9781583420836","title":"Boy Gets Girl: A Play in Two Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the dilemma facing Theresa Bedell, a reporter in New York, in Rebecca Gilman's tensely fascinating new play. When Theresa goes on an awkward blind date with a friend of a friend, she sees no reason to continue the relationship--but the man, an attractive fellow named Tony, thinks otherwise. While Theresa is at first annoyed yet flattered by his continuing attention, her attitude gradually changes to one of fear and fury when he starts violently to menace her and those around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn brilliantly delineating the kind of terror a woman in full control of her life feels when everything around her suddenly seems to be a threat, Gilman probes the dark side of relationships in the 1990s with the rich insight and compelling characterizations that have distinguished her earlier plays and made her one of the most exciting young playwrights working today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50382594474257,"sku":"CIN1583420835G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583420835.jpg?v=1751342399"},{"product_id":"blue-surge-book-rebecca-gilman-9781583421772","title":"Blue Surge","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurt is a small-town cop in the Midwest; Sandy is the nineteen-year-old prostitute he first tries to arrest, then attempts to help, at the cost of his badge. What Rebecca Gilman makes of this familiar scenario is something startlingly real and compelling, delving deeply into the small space that can divide a feeling of hope from one of hopelessness, as Curt and Sandy both try to get a foothold in the American dream of a house, a job, a life, a relationship with another human being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGilman's previous play, \u003ci\u003eBoy Gets Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, was acclaimed by \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine as the best play of 2000, saying that with \u003ci\u003eSpinning into Butter\u003c\/i\u003e, her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail . . . It's not just a gripping play but also an important one. Marked by Gilman's characteristically sharp delineation of character, pitch-perfect dialogue, and effortless use of humor that is both biting and silly, \u003ci\u003eBlue Surge \u003c\/i\u003eis a worthy successor to these plays--an intimate look at the class struggle in America today as well as a brilliant example of the dramatic craft from one of today's most accomplished practitioners. It will have its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the spring of 2001.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391768170769,"sku":"CIN1583421777G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51328169312529,"sku":"CIN1583421777A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52947501941009,"sku":"CIN1583421777VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583421777.jpg?v=1751151497"},{"product_id":"blue-surge-book-rebecca-gilman-9780571211074","title":"Blue Surge","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurt is a small-town cop in the Midwest; Sandy is the nineteen-year-old prostitute he first tries to arrest, then attempts to help, at the cost of his badge. What Rebecca Gilman makes of this familiar scenario is something startlingly real and compelling, delving deeply into the small space that can divide a feeling of hope from one of hopelessness, as Curt and Sandy both try to get a foothold in the American dream of a house, a job, a life, a relationship with another human being.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gilman's previous play,\u003ci\u003eBoy Gets Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, was acclaimed by\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003emagazine as the best play of 2000, saying that \"with\u003ci\u003eSpinning into Butter\u003c\/i\u003e, her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail . . . It's not just a gripping play but also an important one.\" Marked by Gilman's characteristically sharp delineation of character, pitch-perfect dialogue, and effortless use of humor that is both biting and silly,\u003ci\u003eBlue Surge\u003c\/i\u003eis a worthy successor to these plays--an intimate look at the class struggle in America today as well as a brilliant example of the dramatic craft from one of today's most accomplished practitioners. It will have its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the spring of 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50627479470353,"sku":"CIN0571211070VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003671806225,"sku":"NIN9780571211074","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327073911057,"sku":"CIN0571211070G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51552884424977,"sku":"GOR007853939","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571211070.jpg?v=1751326941"},{"product_id":"crowd-you-re-in-with-book-rebecca-gilman-9780810126442","title":"The Crowd You're in with","description":"Offers a funny, thought-provoking and disquieting exploration of the question of whether to have children.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50716882010385,"sku":"GOR006310706","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50812781822225,"sku":"CIN0810126443G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0810126443.jpg?v=1763481002"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-rebecca-gilman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}