Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel is a multi-award-winning play about the empowerment of Esther, a seamstress in 1905 New York who creates exquisite lingerie for both Fifth Avenue boudoirs and Tenderloin bordellos.'Marvellous.. quietly subversive, its recovery of lost lives makes this a defining piece of American drama'
* Observer *'Finely wrought... [a] play tinged with love, warmth and lightness'
* WhatsOnStage *'Tender, illuminating... this warm, rich, complex tale will stay in the memory for a long time to come'
* The Times *'An exceptionally gifted playwright'
* New York Times *'A thing of beauty'
* Los Angeles Times *
Lynn Nottage is a double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Clyde's; Mlima's Tale; Sweat (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Ruined (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); Intimate Apparel; Fabulation; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'knockers and POOF! Nottage was the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play (for Ruined), the Lee Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honours include the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, the National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award, and fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a co-founder and producer at Market Road Films LLC, a film production company.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848424371 |
| ISBN 10 | 184842437X |
| Title | Intimate Apparel |
| Author | Lynn Nottage |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2014-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play 2004 |
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