New York Drama Critics Circle Winners Plays 1989-2010
Discover the New York Drama Critics Circle winners from 1989-2010, featuring iconic plays like August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen. Explore award-winning dramas that shaped modern theater, from Take Me Out to Our Country’s Good. Your guide to the best plays and playwrights honored by the circle, covering two decades of theatrical excellence.
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Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn
TONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. “Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn’s ambitious, fiercely intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohr meet once again to discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the metaphysical—the very essence of human motivation.
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Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas.
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The Piano Lesson
by August Wilson
A powerful exploration of the legacy of slavery in America, The Piano Lesson centres on a brother and sister in 1930s Pittsburgh as they argue over whether to sell the family piano, an instrument tainted by the wages of slavery. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1990. The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century. This edition includes a Foreword by Toni Morrison. 'It was in reading The Piano Lesson that I was struck by the beauty and accuracy of August Wilson's language, as well as a richness waiting to be mined' Toni Morrison, from her Foreword
