The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre

Focusing on the collaborative and creative processes that go into productions, iThe Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre/i introduces students to the theatre through the plays themselves and the people who write them, create them, and act in them. The book provides a rich context for each play with a discussion of the playwright's other works, sources for the play, timelines that present historical and cultural background, and a section on a particular production of the play to give students a sense of the theatre industry at close hand. iThe Creative Spirit/i includes complete scripts of five plays: August Wilson's iJoe Turner's Come and Gone/i, Wakako Yamauchi's iAnd the Soul Shall Dance/i, Tony Kushner's iAngels in America/i, Milcha Sanchez-Scott's iDog Lady/i, and Nilo Cruz's iAnna in the Tropics/i.