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A Strange Loop Michael R. Jackson

A Strange Loop By Michael R. Jackson

A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson

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Summary

A blistering original musical about a young artist at war with a host of demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards.

A Strange Loop Summary

A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson

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.

'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

A Strange Loop Reviews

'Explosively imaginative. Dazzlingly one-of-a-kind'

* Washington Post *

'Audacious and uproarious... a meta masterpiece'

* Guardian *

'A dazzling ride. No measure of praise could be too much'

* New York Times *

'Screamingly funny. Unmissable. The musical we've been waiting for'

* Time Out *

'To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor. Which came first? A Strange Loop is complex, teasing, thrilling'

* New Yorker *

'An exhilarating cocktail of hilarious lyrical complexity... Michael R. Jackson is a musical talent with deep wells of invention'

* Time Out New York *

'Brilliant... Harrowing... one-of-a-kind... Hyper-observant and hyper-verbal, Jackson lets his remorselessly satirical eye wander, to hilarious and devastating effect... What makes A Strange Loop so powerful, is not an attempt to find our common humanity but an insistence on speaking its own idiosyncratic truth'

* Vogue *

'Phenomenal... both a raw and unflinching interrogation of identity and the most furiously entertaining show on Broadway'

* Variety *

'Triumphant, emotionally lacerating... I sat with my mouth agape, astonished and grateful that something so brutally honest and rigorously constructed had finally broken through to a Broadway stage'

* LA Times *

About Michael R. Jackson

Michael R. Jackson is an American playwright, composer and lyricist, originally from Detroit, Michigan.

Additional information

GOR013649701
9781839042355
1839042354
A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
Michael R. Jackson
NHB Modern Plays
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
2023-06-22
88
Winner of Best Musical & Best Book of a Musical, Tony Awards 2022 Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2020
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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