A Strange Loop

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By Michael R. Jackson

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A Strange Loop follows Usher, a Black, queer writer struggling with his day job and inner demons as he crafts an original musical mirroring his own complex life. The narrative delves into themes of identity and self-reflection, creating a layered, thrilling exploration of creativity and personal struggle.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary drama, LGBTQ+ themes, and explorations of artistic and personal identity, especially those intrigued by innovative theatre and award-winning works.

A radical, metafictional musical wherein a queer black writer confronts the impossibility of fully understanding the self.

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Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

"To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colourful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor. Which came first? A Strange Loop is complex, teasing, thrilling." - Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker

Usher is a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. This blistering musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons—not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head—in an attempt to understand his own strange loop.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781559369930

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 April 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Edition: US edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 120

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Arts & Culture Michael R. Jackson Non-Fiction

About the Author

Michael R. Jackson was one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2022. His Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Circlewinning A Strange Loop by Ben Brantley for The New York Times. In addition to A Strange Loop, he also wrote book, music, and lyrics for White Girl in Danger, and the book and lyrics for Teeth, which opened at New World Stages in Fall 2024. Awards and associations include: a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, a Fred Ebb Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, a Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and he is an alum of Page 73's Interstate 73 Writers Group.