The Last Night of Ballyhoo
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559361409 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"You Won't Want to See the Last of Ballyhoo" according to A. R. Karpe. Alfred Uhry's stunning play, "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" achieves two major accomplishments: it examines the timeless issue of biggotry (even within one's own minority group)and delivers it in a gift wrapped package which looks, feels and sounds like a good old fashioned Broadway play. Like "Driving Miss Daisy," Uhry examines the peculiarities in the lives of Southern Jews, drawing a great deal of humo. "The Beauty of Ballyhoo" according to J. Bragg. The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a powerful piece of drama. We see this powerful genius in its ability to draw laughter and tears from an audience in a single dizzy breath: who can forget Lala's burst of kleptomania, or Sunny's candle-lit Shabbat prayer in the final scene? I was blessed to take part in a community theater production of this play as Lala Levy; as a result of this opportunity, I and the cast. "A second great work by an under-appreciated genius" according to Peter Carrozzo. Alfred Uhry strikes again with his second work examining racism and anti-semitism in the American South. In a clever twist, the playwright focuses on the prejudice of Jews of German decent against "the other kind" meaning Jews of Slavic decent. This infinitesimally subtle difference in ethnicity represents a world of difference in Southern Jewish society.Exploiting the significance of such a minor disti
. From the Back Cover A bittersweet romantic comedy set in Atlanta in 1939, on the eve of World War II and the opening night of Gone with the Wind, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo deals in a very personal way with being Jewish in the South, depicting the prejudices that existed between German-American Jews and "the other kind"
The newest play by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy.