Trucker Rhapsody & Other Plays - by Toni Press-Coffman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Written over the last forty years, these five plays by Toni Press-Coffman remain relevant to current social divides. They explore the nature of American idealism-how it is tested, lost or tempered, what saving graces come to take its place.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The five highly topical plays in this collection by Toni Press-Coffman have aged well and remain remarkably relevant to many of the most divisive issues that still face us as a society-in ways more encouraging than not. These plays explore the nature of idealism, especially its distinctively American forms-where it comes from, how it is tested, how we lose it or temper it, and what saving graces may come to take its place. We can still learn from the student civil rights activists, draft resisters, and soldiers who, like their president, found themselves mired in the Vietnam war and its aftermath; from what inspired those who committed violence as well as those who tried to stop it during the 1992 Los Angeles riots; from the intentional martyrdom of those on United Flight 93. Toni Press's characters, with all their flaws, don't take easy ways out or accept easy answers to the moral questions life poses. They do prove themselves capable of change, insight, compassion, and quiet, imitable heroisms well within our range. We finish these plays feeling, ah, now, we can get started.</p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Trucker Rhapsody & Other Play</em>s is a sweeping and incisive exploration of what it means to be human in an American landscape of conflict, unrest, and inequality during the past 50+ years. When she holds a mirror up to nature in these plays, we may not like what we see, but perhaps we won't be so quick to look away. </p><p>-Dr. Judith Sebasta, Austin Community College</p><p><br></p><p>These plays, set in recent historical moments of heightened pressures and conflicting interests, are nonetheless driven by the characters in all their flesh-and-blood humanity, their impulses both grand and trivial. . . .Her skill at weaving divergent threads and points-of-view into one complex, irresolvable but co-arising American experience is unique.<em> </em> </p><p>-Susan Marsden, Resident Director, Eureka Theatre (Retired)</p><p><br></p><p>Toni Press-Coffman is a humane creator of characters struggling to navigate their interwoven lives. Times and spaces overlap as we witness their struggles to form community in a world of disunity. </p><p>-James Reel, Arts Critic and Journalist</p><p><br></p><p>Perhaps Toni Press-Coffman's greatest gift as a writer is to break open her characters (widely diverse, spanning centuries, races, genders, class and politics) to reveal their beating hearts. . . . Given voice by a theatrical language, both heightened and deceptively natural, her plays pulse with a driving rhythm and flashes of searing imagery.</p><p> -Brad Erickson, Playwright and Executive Director, Theatre Bay Area </p><br>
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