Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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Spinning Into Butter
Written by Rebecca Gilman
Narrated by Jordan Baker and Full Cast
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
What happens when conflicting emotions inhabit the same space? When a new vocabulary is devised to disguise the same old thoughts? In this barbed satire of political correctness, Rebecca Gilman’s provocative characters spin a web of their own, revealing the latent racism that may lurk beneath the porcelain veneer of a liberated conscience.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jordan Baker, Daniel Chacon, Michael Cotter, Patricia Fraser, Kevin Kilner, Charles Kimbrough and Stuart Pankin.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jordan Baker, Daniel Chacon, Michael Cotter, Patricia Fraser, Kevin Kilner, Charles Kimbrough and Stuart Pankin.
Author
Rebecca Gilman
Rebecca Gilman is the author of the play The Glory of Living, which received the 1998 American Theater Critics Association's Osborn Award. She is the recipient of the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the George Devine Award, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Scott McPherson Award, and an Illinois Arts Council playwriting fellowship. A native of Alabama, Ms. Gilman lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Reviews for Spinning Into Butter
Rating: 3.1818180818181814 out of 5 stars
3/5
22 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A play about racism that challenges us to examine our own preconceptions and how tolerant we really are. The story was talky and preachy, the characters were poorly developed stereotypes, and the resolution was, well, lame. The author clearly has a message she wants to get across, but she is so heavy handed that the story gets lost and the message sort of follows it down the black hole.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A play about racism that challenges us to examine our own preconceptions and how tolerant we really are. The story was talky and preachy, the characters were poorly developed stereotypes, and the resolution was, well, lame. The author clearly has a message she wants to get across, but she is so heavy handed that the story gets lost and the message sort of follows it down the black hole.