Heroes and Saints and Other Plays WITH Giving Up the Ghost AND Shadow of a Man AND Heroes and Saints - Softcover

On "Shadow of a Man: "[Moraga] crafts a euphonious, musical medium out of the everyday language, the kitchen table talk of her people. . . . She [is] interested in the intricacies of sorrow that shape individuals, and thus a people." This play has the resonance of a soul on fire, eager to share the flames. It is a burning of old ideas, an incineration of outdated attitudes, but most especially a burning of passions. On "Heroes and Saints: " "Heroes" is the sort of unexpected discovery that refreshes . . . a potent script which transcends the protest genre by penetrating to the heart of the human experience. On "Shadow of a Man: " Moraga crafts a euphonious, musical medium out of the everyday language, the kitchen table talk of her people. . . . She is interested in the intricacies of sorrow that shape individuals, and thus a people.

Heroes and Saints and Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: 'Shadow of a Man', winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; 'Heroes and Saints', winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and 'Giving Up the Ghost', first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version.