Karen Zacarías: Plays One: Native Gardens; The Book Club Play; Destiny of Desire
- ISBN-10
- 1786826321
- ISBN-13
- 9781786826329
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-30
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Karen Zacarías
Description
The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacarías, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA. Contains the plays Native Gardens / The Book Club Play / Destiny of Desire The Book Club Play A hit comedy about books and the people who love them. When the members of a devoted book club become the subjects of a documentary filmmaker and accept a provocative new member, their long-standing group dynamics take a hilarious turn. Sprinkled with wit, joy and novels galore. Destiny of Desire On a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born - one into a life of privilege and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a former beauty queen with an insatiable lust for power the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes to grow into one remarkable destiny. Karen Zacarías infuses the Mexican telenovela genre with music, high drama and burning passion to make for a fast-paced modern comedy. Native Gardens You can't choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo's colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples' notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
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