Bøger af Mahonri Stewart

Phoebe faithfully serves at the temple of Delphi. There, she has a vision of the Titan Prometheus, the advocate of humankind who gave us fire. As punishment for helping the humans, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock and it is there that Prometheus is tortured daily. Prometheus calls Phoebe to free him, so she must gather a group of heroes for the task. Yet, doubt and opposition plague her from the start as she wonders whether she is now afflicted with madness, or whether she truly did receive a vision from a tortured, but loving god.

C.S. "Jack" Lewis: accomplished author, famed creator of fantasy worlds, and the 20th Century's most eloquent defender of Christianity. Little do most people know that he was once an entrenched atheist. This play by Kennedy Center award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart recounts the powerful spiritual journey of the "most reluctant convert in all of England," as he grapples with bold figures of faith like J.R.R. Tolkien and a god who hunts his soul relentlessly. Yet the worth of that soul is manifest in a struggle that will create a legendary legacy. The volume also includes Stewart's speech about C.S. Lewis: "It is the Myth That Gives Life."

This play by Kennedy Center national award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart "exceeds the tweet, elevates the senses, and enlarges the mind" (Andrea Johnson, Front Row Reviewers). William Shakespeare has come home-but is he welcome back? Having traveled between London and Stratford-Upon-Avon his entire professional life as England's premiere playwright, he has missed significant events in the life of his family; most tragically, the death of his son Hamnet. Now his daughter Judith hates him, his daughter Susannah distrusts love, and his wife Anne grows ever more distant. To make matters worse, a vengeful, but complex Thomas Quiney plots to tear down all that Shakespeare holds dear and raise himself up in its place. Shakespeare must confront the mistakes of his past, or risk losing what's left of his future.The volume also includes an Afterword essay by the author that explores the connections between Shakespeare's family and his work that Stewart discovered during his "Year of Shakespeare."

Known chiefly for his national award-winning plays, Mahonri Stewart now reveals a hidden trove of poetry which he has held back for over twenty-five years. Now, exposing some of his most intimate, personally vulnerable work, Stewart's poetry includes his meditations on myth and spirituality; sonnets and love missives to his wife; poems of joy; and poems of struggle. Drawing from the vibrant poetry he wrote in his youth, to his more current, mature, verbal hymns, this is a poetic journey of vision and self-discovery.

David Hyrum Smith is the youngest son of Joseph Smith, the first prophet of Mormonism. Yet, David never knew his father who was murdered by a mob before he was born. Raised by his powerful mother, Emma Smith, David must chart a new spiritual course as his brother Joseph III distances their family from Brigham Young's version of Mormonism in Utah, while still seeking to honor their father's place in the Restorationist movement. David's search for the truth, however, brings him on a path full of peril, as he seeks deeper and deeper into his family's past.

Joseph Smith would grow to become one of the most influential and controversial figures in American religious history, a person who millions would come to call a prophet of God. Yet, he was once just a young teenager in a large family of poor farmers and laborers, a barefoot boy seeking his own personal salvation. The story he got caught up in--one that claims angels, seer stones, new scripture, religious contention, treasure digging, visions, and a magical, spiritual world striving to emerge in 19th century America--is a tale that strains credulity while it inspires the spiritual imagination. Could so much have really happened in a world that was striving towards modernity? This novel takes the supernatural and spiritual dimensions of the Mormon story seriously and works with the thesis that such events truly transpired. However, it doesn't paint a sanitized, Sunday school version of its historical figures, but meets them in their all too human faults and controversies, recognizing that they were complex and compelling human beings.

In this post-apocalyptic fairy tale the world is now overrun with mythical creatures. Humanity's last survivors include the young and fierce Madeline and her blind mother Ebony who meet the young, traumatized Shasta. Together they have to face a minotaur, solve a Sphinx's riddles, and wrestle a griffin before they face down their ultimate enemy, the Emperor Wolf. Thankfully, they have help from the mystical Wandering Women who shows a vested interest in them, but can even her powerful aid help them overcome a world gone mad with magic?

Mystical Plays of Magic, Meaning, and Romance A self-exiled man finds himself in a mythical Australia. A Victorian woman has closeted herself in her home to hide herself from an ancient secret. A woman stumbles into a shop whose glassware contains more than she bargained for. The Greek Eurydice wakes up on a boat with a mysterious man. The Lady of Shallot is discovered in an ancient castle by a ragtag group of adventurers. A trio of post-apocalyptic survivors faces a changed world that contains sphinxes, fairies, griffins, goddesses, and the fearsome Emperor Wolf. In these plays, national-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart explores his enchanted side. "[Evening Eucalyptus] does a good job of weaving together several storylines with a sense of magic . . . the last lines of the play linger in the mind long after curtain call . . . an exciting climax and compelling resolution. There is a lot to recommend Evening Eucalyptus for a night of thought-provoking entertainment." -Kristin Perkins, Front Row Reviewers "[A] shining achievement . . . Retellings that bring to light new ideas in ancient stories . . . are some of my favorite things in the world, and Stewart pulls this off beautifully!" -Bianca Dillard, Utah Theatre Bloggers Association "Mahonri Stewart is a masterful writer . . . and it is always a pleasure to grapple intellectually with what his clever mind produces time after time." -Marilyn Brown, Dawning of a Brighter Day

Five Plays About the Search for Spirituality National-award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart continues to explore the contours of spirituality in an increasingly complicated world. This volume includes: - A Roof Overhead-The Fielding family's Mormon values conflict with their tenant's atheistic beliefs. Can mutual tolerance be found, or will tragedy ruin their chances for finding common ground? - Friends of God-This play dramatizes the history of Joseph Smith's martyrdom and the controversies and dangers that led up to it. - "White Mountain" and "The Prince's House"-These two short plays explore the light and dark sides of the spiritual world. - Yeshua-The New Testament Gospels are explored in new and beautiful ways. "Stewart's skill at dialogue and characterization, mingled with just the right amount of humor, drama, and pathos, anchors us to the play-we become more than mere observers. . . . What [A Roof Overhead] says to Mormons is, 'We are not alone in the world. We need to learn to get along with others of different or, sometimes, no faith.'" -Excerpt from the AML Award Citation for Drama, 2012 "I'm getting more and more impatient to see great Mormon literature before I die! Thanks to Mahonri Stewart, we're coming closer. . . . I loved his A Roof Overhead. . . . Hooray for quality! It's coming!" -Marilyn Brown, Association for Mormon Letters "Mahonri Stewart's Yeshua tells the familiar story of Jesus, but unlike so many retellings of the Savior's life, it does not play like a highlights reel of the Gospels. At its heart, Yeshua is about our need for deeply personal relationships-not only with the divine, but with all of humanity." -Scott Hales, literary critic and award-winning cartoonist of Garden of Enid