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Beauty's Daughter

$13.00
Qty:
One Act, Drama
1 woman
Total Cast: 1, Flexible Set
ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-1883-8


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $40 per performance.
THE STORY: BEAUTY’S DAUGHTER. One woman’s journey with many obstacles stacked against her. The heroine or “anti-heroine” can choose to be a victim of the violent cards life has dealt her or she can use her poetry and music as a creative means to deal. The audience sees the character’s inability and ultimate ability to deal with other people and triumph in the end.
“Scorching…terrible and touching…M. Orlandersmith is herself wholly original, a riveting combatant in a story, like all war stories, that stamps her as one who has been there.” —The New York Times.

“[Orlandersmith’s] depictions of the characters in her native East Harlem neighborhood—some broken, some on the way down—are passionate and full of insight. —The New Yorker.

Included in the collection The Gimmick and Other Plays.