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Author Carson, Jo, 1946-2011.

Title Liars, thieves and other sinners on the bench / by Jo Carson
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 270 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; About the Makingof the Work; Fact and Fiction; The Process; The Projects; The Collaborators; Instructions for This Book; Close History; A Civil War Story; Great-Grandfather; Places; The Yoder Barn; The Fulton Opera House; Geology; Plowing Outback; Other Places; Cambodia; Greece; The Countess; Troubles and Fears; Brown Dress; Whipping; Somewhere Safe; Covet; Covet Follow-Up(White Coyote); Bombs Upstairs; Porchman/Parchman; Women and Mice; Mouse Stole; Eden Mouse; Thousands; Mules; Amish Mule; Three Mule Stories; Characters; Secret Marriage; The Patternmaker; False Witness
The Butcher Loved HerExceptional Experience; Rattlesnake; Bass Hammock; Fire; Grabbler; Shot; Train Wreck; Wasted Youth; Hermaphrodite; Bad Days andHard Comedy; Tour of a Minor TrafficAltercation; Snake-Bit Dog; Work; Cooking Liquor; Route; Hard Way to Hunt; Migrant Work Stories; Summer Day; Wal-Mart; Children; Lonely; No; Shared Younguns; One Child; Only Child; Missed Children; Sixteen Children; Healing; The Cures; Healer; Voodoo; Midwife; Great-Grandmother; Fiddler S
Summary Human experience is varied and astonishing, notes Jo Carson, "and this is a taste." A uniquely American writer and performer, Carson has spent fifteen years working with peoples' stories in communities across the country, crafting more than thirty plays from the oral histories she has collected. In performance, these works have illuminated and invigorated the communities in which they were forged, as the people see themselves onstage in a new light. This book collects Carson's favorite excerpts from the playsstories that range from the homespun to the extraordinary and together creat
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Subject American fiction.
American literature.
American fiction
American literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781559366328
155936632X