{"product_id":"9781466880498","title":"Walker and The Ghost Dance: Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWalker\u003c\/i\u003e, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180205949168,"sku":"9781466880498","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880498_p0.jpg?v=1769892210","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}