Full name: The Secret in the Wings: A Play

Author: Mary Zimmerman Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Play Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780810129870 0810129876

Mary Zimmerman's The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humor. The framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialize, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption, after which each previous tale is successively resumed, with each looming disaster averted. As in Zimmerman's other productions, here she uses costumes, props, sets, and lighting to brilliant effect, creating images and feelings that render the fairy tales in all their elemental and enduring power. Similar books: The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman Wit by Margaret Edson The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry Beautiful Mornin' by Ethan Mordden Proof by David Auburn Harvey by Mary Chase The Paper Canoe by Eugenio Barba The Director's Craft by Katie Mitchell The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang 27 Wagons Full of Cotton And Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman The Fifteen Minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard The Investigation by Peter Weiss Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos Shadowlands by William Nicholson