{"product_id":"9780988323377","title":"A Roof Overhead and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFive Plays About the Search for Spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart continues to explore the contours of spirituality in an increasingly complicated world. This volume includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eA Roof Overhead\u003c\/i\u003e-The Fielding family's Mormon values conflict with their tenant's atheistic beliefs. Can mutual tolerance be found, or will tragedy ruin their chances for finding common ground? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eFriends of God\u003c\/i\u003e-This play dramatizes the history of Joseph Smith's martyrdom and the controversies and dangers that led up to it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \"White Mountain\" and \"The Prince's House\"-These two short plays explore the light and dark sides of the spiritual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• \u003ci\u003eYeshua\u003c\/i\u003e-The New Testament Gospels are explored in new and beautiful ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stewart's skill at dialogue and characterization, mingled with just the right amount of humor, drama, and pathos, anchors us to the play-we become more than mere observers. . . . What [\u003ci\u003eA Roof Overhead\u003c\/i\u003e] says to Mormons is, 'We are not alone in the world. We need to learn to get along with others of different or, sometimes, no faith.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Excerpt from the AML Award Citation for Drama, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm getting more and more impatient to see great Mormon literature before I die! Thanks to Mahonri Stewart, we're coming closer. . . . I loved his \u003ci\u003eA Roof Overhead\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Hooray for quality! It's coming!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Marilyn Brown, Association for Mormon Letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mahonri Stewart's \u003ci\u003eYeshua\u003c\/i\u003e tells the familiar story of Jesus, but unlike so many retellings of the Savior's life, it does not play like a highlights reel of the Gospels. At its heart, \u003ci\u003eYeshua\u003c\/i\u003e is about our need for deeply personal relationships-not only with the divine, but with all of humanity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Scott Hales, literary critic and award-winning cartoonist of \u003ci\u003eGarden of Enid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zarahemla Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023351693552,"sku":"9780988323377","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780988323377_p0.jpg?v=1763898798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780988323377","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}