Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 0822217996
ISBN-13 : 9780822217992
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

THE STORY: Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult in the

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
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Publisher : Methuen Drama
Total Pages : 79
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ISBN-10 : 0413772136
ISBN-13 : 9780413772138
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

"Its aggressive high-octane style is like a shot of caffeine straight in the veins" - Lyn Gardner, Guardian Angel Cruz, a poor Puerto Rican, isn't sure why he's in jail after shooting Reverend Kim, the born-again Christian who brainwashed his best friend. 'All I did was shoot him in the ass', he explains to his long-suffering lawyer Mary Hanrahan. But when the Reverend dies in hospital, Angel lands in solitary confinement next to Lucius, a card-carrying Christian serial-killer. Angel holds out that he was justified and his lawyer's sure that a hearts-and-minds appeal will get him off at trial. But then, in a knife-edge final discussion before Lucius is sent to the electric chair, Angel extraordinarily finds that he too is turning towards the faith that he has so far shunned, thus jeopardising his own case against the born-agains. This is a truth-telling, cage-rattling play about faith, justice and diminishing options in an American prison. A 2001 Edinburgh Festival and Off-Broadway hit, the play's London premieres at the Donmar Warehouse in March 2002.

Our Lady of 121st Street

Our Lady of 121st Street
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 0822219654
ISBN-13 : 9780822219651
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Lady of 121st Street by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

THE STORY: The Ortiz Funeral Room is in big trouble: The body of beloved community activist and nun Sister Rose has been stolen from the viewing room, and waiting for her proper return are some of New York City's most emotionally charged, life-chal

In Arabia We'd All be Kings

In Arabia We'd All be Kings
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 68
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0822218003
ISBN-13 : 9780822218005
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis In Arabia We'd All be Kings by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

THE STORY: Lenny is a recently released ex-convict. Despite his imposing size, he was gang raped repeatedly while incarcerated and struggles to find his manhood on the outside. Daisy, his alcoholic girlfriend, craves a real life with a real man

Den of Thieves

Den of Thieves
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 0822219239
ISBN-13 : 9780822219231
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Den of Thieves by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

THE STORY: Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-binging shoplifter looking to change her life and her self-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recove

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9780571211012
ISBN-13 : 0571211011
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].

A Jesuit Off-Broadway

A Jesuit Off-Broadway
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Publisher : Loyola Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9780829429930
ISBN-13 : 082942993X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis A Jesuit Off-Broadway by : James Martin

Many of us have questions about the Bible: Can we believe the Bible? What was Jesus’ mission? What is sin? Does hell exist? Is anyone beyond God’s forgiveness? In A Jesuit Off-Brodway, James Martin, SJ, answers these questions about the Bible, and other big questions about life, as he serves as a theological advisor to the cast of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Grab a front-row seat to Fr. Martin's six months with the LAByrinth Theater Company and see first-hand what it's like to share the faith with a largely secular group of people . . . and discover, along with Martin, that the sacred and the secular aren't always that far apart.

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (TCG Edition)

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (TCG Edition)
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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781559369428
ISBN-13 : 1559369426
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (TCG Edition) by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

“Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast…Guirgis’s rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy.” —Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker Stephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a women’s halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents struggle with addiction, abuse, and mental illness. Between daily therapy sessions, they clash with the staff and each other, form alliances, and fall in love. Harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven roaringly brings to life the experiences of women who society has tried to shuffle out of sight and out of mind.

The Convert

The Convert
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9781786820716
ISBN-13 : 1786820714
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Convert by : Danai Gurira

A young Shona girl escapes an arranged marriage by converting to Christianity, becoming a servant and student to an African Evangelical. As anti-European sentiments spread throughout the native population, she is forced to choose between her family's traditions and her newfound faith.

Between Riverside and Crazy

Between Riverside and Crazy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : 9781350502093
ISBN-13 : 135050209X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Between Riverside and Crazy by : Stephen Adly Guirgis

"Son, that girl, she's a nice girl, but she don't study accounting. Her lips move when she read the horoscope – that ain't the mark of a future accountant!" Since his wife died, ex-cop Walter 'Pops' Washington has filled his palatial rent-controlled apartment in one of Manhattan's most desirable areas with an oddball extended family of petty criminals. So now he's besieged by the landlords, who want him out, the NYPD, who want him to settle his lawsuit against them, and the ladies from the local church, who want to save his soul... But Pops, calm at the eye of the storm, is going to do precisely what Pops wants to do... Stephen Adly Guirgis' fast-moving Rabelaisian tragicomedy was a Broadway hit and won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His other plays include Jesus Hopped the A-Train, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and The Motherf**ker with the Hat. This edition was published to coincide with the UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre, London in May 2024.