A Strange Loop

Michael R. Jackson

ISBN 10: 1839042354 / ISBN 13: 9781839042355

Published by Nick Hern Books, GB, 2023

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Usher is a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical.Michael R. Jackson's blistering original musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons - not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head - in an attempt to understand his own strange loop.A Strange Loop received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York in 2019. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the 2022 Tony Awards - and every other 'Best Musical' award on Broadway.It received its British premiere at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 2023, with Michael R. Jackson winning Best Composer, Lyricist or Book Writer at the 2023 Stage Debut Awards.'A metafictional musical that tracks the creative process of an artist transforming issues of identity, race and sexuality that once pushed him to the margins of the cultural mainstream into a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities' Pulitzer Prize Committee.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Strange Loop
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839042354
• ISBN 13: 9781839042355
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 12.9W x 0.6H x 19.8D centimeters 12.9 centimeters width by 0.6 centimeters height by 19.8 centimeters depth
• Weight: 106 grams

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Synopsis

Usher is a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical...

Michael R. Jackson's blistering original musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons – not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head – in an attempt to understand his own strange loop.

A Strange Loop received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York in 2019. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the 2022 Tony Awards – and every other 'Best Musical' award on Broadway. It received its British premiere at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 2023.