A Map of Doubt and Rescue - Softcover

Susan Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879852292 ISBN 13: 9781879852297

Publisher: University Of Tampa Press, 2005

Synopsis

Winner of the 2004 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, Susan Miller's play A Map of Doubt and Rescue is set in landscapes that include a small American town, Hollywood, the canvas of our history, and the struggle of those who try to make sense of it all as they endeavor to create and connect. . . . The editor of a newspaper writes a column that chronicles human errors and mistakes, as he confronts flaws in his own character and relationships. A filmmaker puts her coming-of-age in the context of others whose lives were cut short. People who live in the same town are dealt a blow that strips them of their place in it all. And a young man tries to find his true voice in a world that doesn't always recognize or reward the original. . . . The characters who inhabit and run through the territory of the play are part of one another's lives sometimes directly and sometimes in ways that are revealed as time unfolds. . . . Susan Miller has rendered a multi-dimensional dramatic terrain at once familiar and spectacularly original, rich with character, incident, insight, and wordplay - an inspiring and poetic map that leads us toward the best in ourselves. In the words of Tony Kushner, the award-winning author of "Angels in America": "This is a lovely and ambitious play, suffused with generosity of spirit, from a writer whose courage, wit, and intelligence has always moved and inspired me."

About this title

About the Author

Susan Miller is a two-time OBIE winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is well-known for her critically acclaimed one-woman play, "My Left Breast," which premiered in Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival and has been performed by Miller and others in theatres across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

"A Map of Doubt and Rescue" won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2004 Pinter Review Prize for Drama. It was developed in workshop by New York Stage and Film and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Miller's plays include "Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks," "For Dear Life," "Cross Country," "Confessions of a Female Disorder," "Flux," "It's Our Town, Too," and "The Grand Design" and have been produced by the Public Theatre, Second Stage, Naked Angels, and The Mark Tupper Forum, among others.

Review

"This is a lovely and ambitious play, suffused with generosity of spirit. . . ." -- Tony Kushner, award-winning author of Angels in America

It is a play. . .full of the richest loneliness and language." -- Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Tampa Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1879852292
• ISBN 13: 9781879852297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112