SALE ON NOW! PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Angela's Mixtape / The History of Light

Eisa Davis

$27.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
53rd State Press
08 May 2024
Trained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change. In Angela's Mixtape,time shifts like a mixtape,and like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a gift-for us, of course, and for Davis's aunt,activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, under whose tutelage Davis readsDas Kapital andlearns to drive stick andhack her own way toward inheriting her legacy. In The History of Light, Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples under racialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of the grand piano, The History of Light is a study in black and white, love and alienation.

Underlying the political clarity and formal virtuosity of Davis's writing are the unexpected crackles of a voice warming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artist concerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, error is a necessary instrument-maybe the sounding weight.
By:  
Imprint:   53rd State Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 190mm,  Width: 139mm, 
ISBN:   9781732545298
ISBN 10:   1732545294
Pages:   225
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Eisa Davis is a writer, composer, and performer. A recipient of a USA Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, an AUDELCO, an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance, and the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, Eisa was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Bulrusher. Along with her thirteen full-length stageworks, she has written for television, recorded two albums of original music, Something Else and Tinctures. An alumnus of New Dramatists, Eisa has received residencies, awards, and fellowships from Sundance Theater Lab, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Helen Merrill Foundation, the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations, and Cave Canem. Eisa lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Reviews for Angela's Mixtape / The History of Light

"""A revealing portrait of a young artist (born in 1970, while her aunt is in prison) struggling to find herself, while growing up in the shadow of three enormously strong, brilliant, and successful black women steeped in radical sixties politics."" * New Yorker on Angela's Mixtape * ""[An] appropriately turbulent and quite funny show about the forces that influence the forging of identity....the strange juxtaposition of the prosaic trials of adolescence and the urgent radicalism of the family politics is also what gives the show its own distinctive identity."" * New York Times on Angela's Mixtape *"


See Also