Polish Joke and Other Plays - Including Don Juan in Chicago, Ancient History, The Red Address (Paperback)


This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing:
Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed, Jasiu, is told by his uncle that Poles are thought to be" backward, stupid, inept, and gloomy." The only way out is for Jaisu "to impersonate someone not Polish."
Don Juan In Chicago, called in which a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil only to become a reluctant Latin lover.
Ancient History, this comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love.
The Red Address, the searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.

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This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing:
Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed, Jasiu, is told by his uncle that Poles are thought to be" backward, stupid, inept, and gloomy." The only way out is for Jaisu "to impersonate someone not Polish."
Don Juan In Chicago, called in which a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil only to become a reluctant Latin lover.
Ancient History, this comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love.
The Red Address, the searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.

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Imprint

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Country of origin

United States

Release date

June 2004

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First published

May 2004

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Dimensions

209 x 139 x 22mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

240

ISBN-13

978-0-8021-4130-9

Barcode

9780802141309

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LSN

0-8021-4130-7



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