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''Pride's Crossing'' is a play by Tina Howe. It received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.〔("Pulitzer Prize for Drama" ) Pulitzer.org, accessed September 5, 2015〕 The play focuses on 90-year-old Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who as a young woman was the first female to swim the English Channel from England to France. In her introduction to the play, Howe wrote, "For some time now I've wanted to write about the passion of old ladies." 〔Howe, Tina. ("Script" ) ''Pride's Crossing'' (books,google.com), Samuel French, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0573626561, pp.4, 6-7〕 ==Production history== ''Pride's Crossing'' was first produced at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in January 1997. Directed by Jack O'Brien, it starred Cherry Jones as Mabel.〔〔Viagas, Robert. ("Cherry Jones to Star in New Tina Howe Play" ) Playbill, January 25, 1997〕 O'Brien and Jones reunited for the Off-Broadway Lincoln Center Theater production, which opened at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on December 7, 1997 and closed on April 5, 1998 after 137 performances. The cast included Dylan Baker, Julia McIlvaine, David Lansbury, and Casey Biggs.〔("'Pride's Crossing' Listing, 1997" ) lortel.org, accessed September 5, 2015〕 Ben Brantley of the ''New York Times'' said the play can "seem as garrulous and repetitive as a conversation-starved alumna at a 50-year college reunion. The affection that animates the play is evident . . . so is the dramatist's ear for the music in everyday conversation. But while ''Pride's Crossing'' is infused with Ms. Howe's lyrical sense of mortality and of the traps of sexual and social identity, this latest work from the author of ''Coastal Disturbances'' can also be like something its no-nonsense heroine might start to read and throw out as romantic hokum . . . Ms. Howe has said her works tend to alienate men because of her expressly feminine perspective. But the special flavor of her writing has more to do with a kind of whimsy that translates theatrical absurdism into costume-party cuteness." 〔(''New York Times'' review, December 8, 1997 )〕 The play was revived at the Off-Broadway T. Schreiber Studio from March 25 - April 18, 2004. Glenn Krutoff directed Tatjana Vujosevic as Mabel Tidings Bigelow.〔Jones, Kenneth. ("Tina Howe's 'Pride's Crossing' Gets NYC Revival at T. Schreiber Studio, March 25-April 18" ) Playbill.com, March 25, 2004〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pride's Crossing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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