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How to Defend Yourself
Series: Yale Drama Series
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This play resonates strongly with readers interested in contemporary social issues, particularly those concerning gender, trauma, and empowerment. It is especially suitable for audiences engaged with arts and culture, theatre, and discussions around societal violence and healing.
A Yale Drama Series-winning play about self-defense, desire, and healing in the aftermath of a college rape.
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How to Defend Yourself is a Yale Drama Series-winning play about self-defence, desire, and healing in the aftermath of a college rape.
Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defence workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They practise using their bodies as weapons. They wrestle with their desires. They learn the limits of self-defence.
This new play by writer, director, actor, and community builder Liliana Padilla explores the intersection of sex, community, and what it means to heal in a violent world. Padilla shows how learning self-defence becomes a channel for these college students’ rage, anxiety, confusion, trauma, and desire. The play examines what one wants, how to ask for it, and the ways rape culture threatens one’s body and sense of belonging.
It is the thirteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize and the second one chosen by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Ayad Akhtar.
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"How to Defend Yourself" has been praised as a fiercely honest and original work. Ayad Akhtar highlights Padilla's skill in exploring the inner lives and identities shaped by absence and trauma. Naomi Iizuka commends its raw examination of living in a violent society and the path to healing, while director Rachel Chavkin lauds its sharp insights into race, class, and gender, describing it as a breathtaking and intelligent debut.
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ISBN: 9780300251593
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 October 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Contributors:
- Foreword by Ayad Akhtar
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Liliana Padilla makes stories about belonging, healing, and transformation. How to Defend Yourself premiered at the Humana Festival and Victory Gardens Theatre and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Liliana received an MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego.
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