The Hot Wing King

Every kang deserves a crown Things are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, Cordell, his partner Dwayne and friends Isom and Big Charles team up again as the New Wing Order, with a new attitude and a mouth-watering new wing recipe.But after an unexpected family emergency, their plans get derailed as the men navigate the meaning of love, family and staying true to yourself.Full of laughter, song and healing, Katori Hall''s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy makes its London debut in a fiery new production at the National Theatre.>

About the author

Katori Hall is from Memphis, Tennessee. Her play The Mountaintop was first produced to great acclaim at Theatre503, London, in June 2009, and received a transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, London, the following month. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010, and opened in Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York City, in October 2011. Her other plays include Hurt Village (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, BRIC Studio, 2007), Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, 2007), Remembrance (Women's Project/World Financial Center site-specific work, 2007), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, The Schomburg Centre, New York, 2008), WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!, The Hope Well and Pussy Valley. Her numerous awards include the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, a 2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, a residency at the Royal Court Theatre in 2006, and the 2005 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting award.

Product details

• Authors: Katori Hall, Hall Katori
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781350529120
• ISBN: 978-1-350-52912-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, DRAMA / American / African American & Black, Modern and contemporary plays / drama