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In fashion plays explicit some aged themes, however in just out and appealing ways. Explosive and determining social issues such as relay, hostility, family values and Craft comprise a sporadic of the ideas fix in these latest plays. If allot in a Chicago living space, on an Oklahoma farm or Environment Cold war I battlefields, some current plays span absent to theater-goers in bold ways to distinct the comedy and tragedy of Diurnal get-up-and-go.
"Clybourne Park"
The chronicle of a 50-year conflict of racial relations in America, "Clybourne Park" won the 2011 Pulitzer Adoration for play. Actor turned playwright Bruce Norris partially based his two-act play on "A Sultana in the Sun." Locate in a Chicago living interval in two day periods, 1959 and 2009, the plot centres on a building as it is sold by an African-American family, then decades consequent by a bloodless couple. Told with wit and tenderness, Everyone reality shows the changes in racial views down the families eyes. The play besides won the Evening Morals Award and the Olivier Award for its London manifest. The Donmar Warehouse produced "Red" in London in 2009 with Molina and Redmayne repeating their roles on Broadway. "Red" won Tony Awards for best play, director, set design, lighting design and music and sound.
"August: Osage County"
Tracey Letts' 2007 Southern-fried satirical play, "August: Osage County," is a melting pot of family secrets, drugs and a mysterious disappearance. The 3-½ hour play tells the story of the Westons of Oklahoma, who reunite to find their missing father.Playwright John Logan fashioned a battle-of-wills that won six Tony awards in 2010, more than any other play, and the Drama Desk Award. The year is 1958 in New York City and Rothko (played by Tony-nominated actor Alfred Molina) works on paintings for the Four Seasons Inn. His assistant, Ken (Tony-winner Eddie Redmayne) starts to impeach Rothko's artistic principles for working on a project solely for the money. The play had its basic expo at Playwrights Horizons Theatre Academy at Latest York University's Tisch College of the Arts. In 2010, "Clybourne Stadium" premiered at the Wolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C.
"Red"
An age-old clash between Craft and beans stirs emotions in "Red," a two-character study about famed abstract artist Mark Rothko and his brash assistant.Headed by a self-medicating mother, Violet, and her array of eccentric adult children, their loose family bonds start to unravel as they search for the father. A shocking secret is revealed that almost destroys them. Besides the Pulitzer Prize, "August: Osage County" won every major New York drama award including the Tony Award, Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award.
"War Horse"
Part epic theater performed with puppets and part sentimental horse story, "War Horse" is told against the backdrop of World War I. Joey, a life-size puppet of a horse, meets Albert, a young English boy who raises him from a colt. Joey is used by the British Army in the war, so Albert joins to find and save his beloved horse. All the puppets in the 2-½ hour play are operated by puppeteers onstage in view of the audience. South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company designed the intricate puppets. British playwright Nick Stafford based the play on the 1982 book by Michael Morpurgo, and the National Theatre in London produced it. "War Horse" won six Laurence Oliver Awards in 2008, and opened on Broadway in 2011.
