The Secret in the Wings: A Play
Mary Zimmerman
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Description for The Secret in the Wings: A Play
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humour. The framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialise, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption, after which each previous tale is successively resumed, with each looming disaster averted. As in ... Read more
Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humour. The framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialise, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption, after which each previous tale is successively resumed, with each looming disaster averted. As in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129870
SKU
V9780810129870
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About Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman’s credits as an adapter and a director include The Arabian Nights, Journey to the West, Metamorphoses, The Odyssey, and The White Snake (all published by Northwestern). Her work has been produced at the Looking glass Theatre and Goodman Theatre of Chicago; on Broadway at Circle in the Square; in New York at Second Stage, the Brooklyn Academy of ... Read more
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