Women in love, and other dramatic writings

Description

Larry Kramer has been described by Susan Sontag as "one of America's most valuable troublemakers." As Frank Rich writes in his Foreword to this new collection of writings for the screen and stage, "his plays are almost journalistic in their observation of the fine-grained documentary details of life ... that may well prove timeless." The title work, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Women in Love, is a movie "as sensuous as anything you've probably ever seen on film" (The New York Times). The screenplay is accompanied by Kramer's reflections on the history of the production, sure to be of interest to any student of film. This volume also includes several early plays, Sissies' Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, and the political farce Just Say No, illuminating the development of one of our most important literary figures.

First Sentence

It is, I have discovered, an arduous task to relive a part of your life, particularly the creation of a piece of work from that past.

Description

"In the title work, the Oscar nominated screenplay for Women in Love, Kramer intersperses his memories and reflections on the movie's making, as he does for the writing of the plays included here: Sissies' Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, and the political farce Just Say No. The publication of this volume throws much insight on the development of Larry Kramer's important literary career and will be of special interest to any student of film or stage."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

• Drama.

Other Editions

• Women in love, and other dramatic writingsGrove Press2002-01-01
• Women in Love and Other Dramatic WritingsPaperbackGrove Press2003-01-24
• Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings : Women in Love : the Screenplay, Sissie's Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, Just Say No, the Farce in Just Saying NoGrove/Atlantic, Incorporated2007-01-01