{"product_id":"9781466880375","title":"The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 1959, Derek Walcott has directed and written for the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. \u003ci\u003eThe Joker of Seville,\u003c\/i\u003e a comedy based on Tirso de Molina's \u003ci\u003eEl Burlador de Sevilla,\u003c\/i\u003e  was commissioned by England's Royal Shakespeare Company. Walcott's sensitivity to the pacing, meter, and lyricism of the original makes his first attempt at adaptation an extraordinary accomplishment. \u003ci\u003eO Babylon!\u003c\/i\u003e brings life the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica, which grew during Marcus Garvey's exile to that country and has recently been popularized through the lyrics of reggae music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Walcott's plays have been produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Negro Ensemble Company. \u003ci\u003eDream on Monkey Mountain, \u003c\/i\u003ethe title play of his earlier collection, won the Obie Award for a Distringuished Foreign Play when produced in New York in 1971. It was deemed \"a masterpiece\" by Edith Oliver in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker. \u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDream on Monkey Mountain,\" \u003c\/i\u003eshe wrote\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\"is a poem in dramatic form or a drama in poetry, and poetry is rare in the modern theatre. Every line of it plays....there is a sound psychological basis for every action and emotion.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169719075056,"sku":"9781466880375","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880375_p0.jpg?v=1769892111","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}