{"product_id":"man-of-la-mancha-isbn-9780394406190","title":"Man of La Mancha","description":"Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Musical, 1966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To me the most interesting aspect of the success of \u003cb\u003eMan of La Mancha\u003c\/b\u003e is the fact that it plows squarely upstream against the prevailing current of philosophy in the theater. That current is best identified by its catch-labels--Theater of the Absurd, Black Comedy, the Theater of Cruelty--which is to say the theater of alienation, of moral anarchy and despair. To the practitioners of those philosophies \u003cb\u003eMan of La Mancha\u003c\/b\u003e must seem hopelessly naive in its espousal of illusion as man's strongest spiritual need, the most meaningful function of his imagination. But I've no unhappiness about that. \"Facts are the enemy of truth,\" says Cervantes-Don Quixote. And that is precisely what I felt and meant.\"--Dale Wasserman, from the Preface.\u003cb\u003eDale Wasserman\u003c\/b\u003e wrote for theater, television, and film for more than fifty years and is best known for the musical \u003ci\u003eMan of La Mancha,\u003c\/i\u003e a multiple Tony Award winner. He also wrote the stage play \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,\u003c\/i\u003e based on Ken Kesey’s novel, which has won several Tony Awards. Both shows continue to be produced nationally and internationally with an estimated 300 productions a year.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302466900197,"sku":"NP9780394406190","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394406190.jpg?v=1767732198","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/man-of-la-mancha-isbn-9780394406190","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}