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JO CARSON (1946 - ) |
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Jo Carson lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee, where she writes plays, short stories, essays, and poems. She has authored a series of monologues and dialogues that she has performed for audiences at music festivals. A collection of this material, Stories I Aint Told Nobody Yet, is available from Orchard Books in New York. She has been an occasional commentator on National public Radios All Things Considered for five years. Carson won awards in 1984 from the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services and in 1986 from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her script Daytrips received the 1989 Joseph P. Kesserlring Award. In the spring of 1991 Carson was commissioned to write a full-length play about the life of Davy Crockett.
Plays by Jo Carson
Daytrips | ||
| 1st Produced: | Judith Anderson Theatre, NY | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0435086053 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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| Pat is the caretaker of both her mother, stricken with Alzheimer's disease, and her grandmother, lonely and in need of help. The play involves a series of day trips which Pat takes with her mother, Irene, to help her grandmother, Rose. These trips evoke memories of the earlier day trips made when Pat was a little girl and Irene was still capable. Through a series of scenes which blend memories, dreams and realism, DAYTRIPS piercingly illuminates the troubling and complicated effects of oldage and disease on already troubled and complicated relationships. The real journey of the play is Pat's struggle with duty and obligation as she confronts illness, madness and the ghosts of the past-and the present. | |||||
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Little Chicago | ||
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Preacher With A Horse To Ride, A | ||
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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections From The People Pieces | ||
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