Master Class
by Terrence Mcnally

Name: Master Class
Brand: Terrence Mcnally
SKU: 9780822215219
Rating: 3.92 (459 reviews)

Master Class Book Cover — Master Class Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Tony Award

Winner! Three 1996 Tony Awards, including Best Play Winner! 1996 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play

Synopsis

Master Class is a pyrotechnical theaterfireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang.

Inspired by a series of master classes the great diva conducted at Juilliard toward the end of her career, this drama puts Maria Callas at center stage again as she coaxes, prods, and inspires students"victims" as she calls theminto giving the performances of their lives while revealing her own.

As she slips off into memories, we experience her days at La Scala, her marriage to Meneghini, and her great doomed love for Aristotle Onassis.

But the dazzling theatricality comes from Callas's emotional explosions, her cutting wit, and the soaring music as each student sings an aria that exposes the Divina's vulnerabilities and her genius.

Themes Arts & Entertainment - Fiction Gay & Lesbian Fiction

Press Reviews

"Terrence McNally’s new play Master Class… will be talked about for years to come whenever people point to theatre experiences that genuinely deserve to be labeled by the overused word ‘great."
— The Hollywood Reporter

"It is Terrence McNally’s total triumph in his Master Class… a night to remember."
— New York Post

"Master Class is mesmerizing theater."
— The Star-Ledger

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
First Soprano (Sophie)	—	—	—
Second Soprano (Sharon)	—	—	—
Tenor (Tony)	—	—	—
Accompanist (Manny)	—	—	—
Stagehand	—	—	—
Maria Callas	—	—	—