Yale Drama #: How to Defend Yourself

Yale Drama #: How to Defend Yourself
Ayad Akhtar, Liliana Padilla
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Paperback
h229 x 140mm - 160pg
2 Oct 2020 US
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9780300251593
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A Yale Drama Series-winning play about self-defense, desire, and healing in the aftermath of a college rape Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They practice using their bodies as weapons. They wrestle with their desires. They learn the limits of self-defense. This new play by writer, director, actor, and community builder Liliana Padilla explores the intersection of sex, community, and what it means to heal in a violent world. Padilla shows how learning self-defense becomes a channel for these college students' rage, anxiety, confusion, trauma, and desire. The play examines what one wants, how to ask for it, and the ways rape culture threatens one' s body and sense of belonging. It is the thirteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize and the second one chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar.

Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You too, August Wilson)
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Yale Drama Series: How to Defend Yourself

"Padilla outlines the mysterious absences that rule our inner lives, give shape to our fantasies, and serve as the troubled conundrums around which our very identities come into being. "-Ayad Akhtar, from the Foreword "How To Defend Yourself is a fierce, blazingly honest, deeply original play. It asks what it means to live in a culture saturated with violence, and what it means to heal. " -Naomi Iizuka, Playwright "Liliana is one of the most thoughtful and penetrating new voices I' ve encountered, and How to Defend Yourself took my breath away. It scratches at the edges of race, class, and gender, and does so with wild intelligence and heart. I love it, and can' t wait to read what they write next. "-Rachel Chavkin, Director
Liliana Padilla makes stories about belonging, healing, and transformation. How to Defend Yourself premiered at the Humana Festival and Victory Gardens Theatre and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Liliana received an MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780300251593
Published: 2 Oct 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 160

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