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Balm in Gilead : and other plays

Three controversial plays reveal the moral corruption and depravity of big city life.

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  • "Ludlow Fair"@en

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  • "Three controversial plays reveal the moral corruption and depravity of big city life."@en
  • "Wilson's first full-length effort, Balm in Gilead centers on a cafe frequented by heroin addicts, prostitutes (both male and female) and thieves. It features many unconventional theatrical devices, such as overlapping dialogue, simultaneous scenes and largely unsympathetic lead charaters. The plot draws a parallel between the amoral, often criminal activity that the cafe's denizens engage in to provide temporary relief from their boredom and suffereing, and the two main characters' becoming a couple in order to escape from their lives."@en
  • "THE STORY: The setting is an all-night coffee shop on New York's upper Broadway, where the riff-raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the lost, the desperate of the big city come together. The movement of the kaleidoscopic in effect, a surging mosaic of overlapping and interrelating speeches and action as separate goals and characters are blended together around a common center. At the core of the play are Joe and Darlene, two young people who would seem to have the strength and the need to transcend the turmoil and ugliness of the life in which they found themselves?but are, instead, crushed by it. But their loss is quickly absorbed in the maelstrom, as the others go on desperately seeking the joy and release and purpose in life which will, most certainly, continue to escape them."@en

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  • "Dramat amerykański"

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  • "Balm in Gilead : and other plays"
  • "Balm in Gilead : and other plays"@en
  • "Balm in Gilead, and other plays"@en
  • "Balm in Gilead, and other plays"
  • "Balm in gilead : ; and other plays / by Lanford Wilson"
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  • "Balm in Gilead and other plays"
  • "Balm in gilead : and other palys"
  • "Balm in Gilead"
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