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OverviewAdapted from the Acclaimed Memoir:Buzz Pick and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author:Hudes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her playWater by the Spoonful. Awards forQuiara Alegra Hudes:Other awards include the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and a HOLA award. Screenwriting:Hudes wrote the screenplay for the critically-acclaimed filmIn the Heights, which she adapted from the musical of the same name that she wrote with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hudes also co-wrote the screenplay for the animated filmVivowith songs by Miranda. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Quiara Alegra HudesPublisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. ISBN: 9781636701981ISBN 10: 1636701981 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 16 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsWhat makes this an original play and not a regurgitated version of her memoir is the implication, realized in these bodies, that an autobiography is common property, not a house behind a fence. Others' real lives, their true personalities--call them spirits--shiver through us, leaving their mark. --New Yorker The show, which honors the many women in Hudes's maternal line, is a tender collision of scene and image, an impressionistic collage rather than a straightforward biography. --New York Times The show feels more like a party than a play: a family photo album come to vivid, joyous life. --Time Out New York """Quiara's in touch with spirits...This is a woman who went into playwriting because she sensed that her family stories--those in Puerto Rico, those in Philadelphia--would fade if she did not give them language.""--Lin-Manuel Miranda ""My Broken Language honors the many women in Hudes's maternal line. A tender collision of scene and image...There's a sincere attempt to find a theatrical language that captures the love and joy and pain of learning, that celebrates the grandmother, mother, aunts, and cousins from whom Hudes learned. This is at its core a memory play, and to remember means not only to recall, but also to piece back together."" --Alexis Soloski, New York Times ""Quiara Alegr�a Hudes's impressionistic My Broken Language feels more like a party than a play: a family photo album come to vivid, joyous life. Hudes struggles to understand her place as she navigates two worlds, two cultures, two languages. Art is the key to her self-integration, and even if we don't grasp every detail, we're invited to witness her ritualistic tribute to the loved ones who shaped her."" --Raven Snook, Time Out New York ""Probing, intelligent, and earnest...What makes this an original play and not a regurgitated version of her memoir is the implication that an autobiography is common property, not a house behind a fence. Others' real lives, their true personalities--call them spirits--shiver through us, leaving their mark. The arts we attend to--literary, religious, choreographic, conversational--are what, in the end, make us who we are and set us on our way."" --Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker" Author InformationQuiara Alegra Hudesis the author ofWater by the Spoonful, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; writer of the book forIn the Heights, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and the screenwriter ofVivo. Her works have been performed on and Off-Broadway and around the world. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |