cover photo by Martha B Porter
this collection contains three full-length plays, collectively known as The Gulliver Trilogy:
LEMUEL
GULLIVER
GULLIVER REDUX
LEMUEL:
"In his language-drunk play
LEMUEL, Lonnie Carter has drawn on everything from the spiraling
patter of modernist writers Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, to
the embroidered exhortations of Jesse Jackson, to the infectious
rhythms of rap, hip-hop and funk.... LEMUEL is dazzling chamber
theater."
Hedy Weiss, Chicago
Sun-Times
"If one man's story can
speak for his time, then Lonnie Carter's LEMUEL sings it in
jumping jive talk, ragged rhythms, choral chanting, hip-hop
tongue twisters and the rolling thunder of a civil rights
sermon."
Lawrence Bommer, Chicago
Reader
5 M, 4 F, minimum, multi-culturally diverse casting essential
GULLIVER:
"The verbal and narrative
gyrations of a Lonnie Carter play are no more daunting than
whipping through a maelstrom on water skis.... GULLIVER, Mr
Carter's latest explosion, takes the hero of Jonathan Swift's
satire on a tour that makes American politics seem even more
lunatic than it is."
D J R Bruckner, The New York
Times
"GULLIVER at the Berkshire
Public Theater shows Carter at his most brilliant...a SKIN OF OUR
TEETH for the '90s."
Malcolm Johnson, The
Hartford Courant
2 M, 1 F, plus ensemble minimum of 2 M, 3 F, multi-culturally diverse casting essential
GULLIVER REDUX:
"Lonnie Carter's GULLIVER
TRILOGY screams and laughs like the irreverent love-child of
Jonathan Swift, Joan of Arc and George Clinton. The wild maze of
Carter's satiric language propels you on a wondrous journey into
the confusion of dark hatreds and heavenly aspirations swirling
in America's heart. As one who gleefully follows Mr Carter's
travels my only advice is, enjoy the trip!"
Neel Keller, Artistic Associate,
La Jolla Playhouse
2 M, 1 F, plus ensemble minimum of 2 M, 3 F, multi-culturally diverse casting essential
PLAYS BY LONNIE CARTER
I S B N 0-88145-134-7: $16.95