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Juicy and Delicious: The Play That Inspired the Motion Picture "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Kindle Edition

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Critical acclaim for BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD:

“This movie is a blast of sheer, improbable joy...A lot of thinking has gone into BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, about themes as well as methods, about the significance of the story as well as its shape. And it is certainly rich enough to invite and repay a healthy measure of critical thought.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

“One of the most striking films ever to debut at the Sundance Film Festival, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD is a poetic evocation of an endangered way of life and a surging paean to human resilience and self-reliance.” –Hollywood Reporter

“Brilliant, compelling and powerful, this offbeat look at a part of a world we live in but know nothing about is not going to disappear without at first making a noise.” –NY Observer

“... a stunning debut that finds its dandelion-haired heroine fighting rising tides and fantastic creatures in a mythic battle against modernity....likely to register strongest among critics and cineastes.” –Variety

“The sensation of this year’s Sundance Festival, where it won the top award for dramatic (fiction) film and for cinematography, BEASTS is the odds-on favorite to take the Caméra d’Or prize for best Cannes first feature. Expect more hosannas when the movie opens in the U.S. June 27.” –TIME

The play that inspired the movie BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

JUICY AND DELICIOUS is an epic chronicle of one boy's journey to self-discovery. Hushpuppy is a motherless child in the rural South who lives with his Daddy. But when Daddy gets sick, the universe starts to fall apart. Ancient beasts rerun from their graves, things fall from the sky, and ghosts live among the living. Hushpuppy is faced with being an orphan, and the end of the known world. Daddy and the brilliant, wild teacher, Miss Bathsheba, work to prepare Hushpuppy and his schoolmates for a life without grownups, a world where they must take care of each other. Tender, funny, and heartbreaking, JUICY AND DELICIOUS weaves a beautiful tale of loss, survival, and self-discovery.

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About the Author

Lucy Alibar is a screenwriter, playwright and storyteller from the Florida panhandle. Her film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, which she wrote with Behn Zeitlin, and is based on her original play, Juicy and Delicious, won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Fox Searchlight will be releasing the film this summer. Her other plays include, A Friend of Dorothy(Best Play Finalist, Montreal Fringe), Lightning/Picnic (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Mommy Says I'm Pretty on the Insides (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower (New Georges).

Her work has been produced and developed at the Sundance Institute, Joe's Pub, Williamstown Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dixon Place, New Georges, Edinburgh Fringe, the Avignon Festival, and the Cherry Lane Theatre. Lucy is a member of Court 13, EST/Youngblood, Jose Rivera's Writing Group, and founder of the New Georges Writer/Director Lab. She is a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, and winner of Young Playwrights, Inc. She bakes a mean coconut cake.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008OKNL6I
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Diversion Books (November 12, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 767 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 56 pages

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Lucy Alibar is a writer from the Florida panhandle. Her plays include "Juicy and Delicious" (Collective Unconscious/The TANK), "A Friend of Dorothy" (Avignon, Montreal Fringe), "Lightning/Picnic", "Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Insides", and "Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower". She wrote her first screenplay, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (an adaptation of her stage play, “Juicy and Delicious” in a Louisiana fishing marina with director Benh Zeiltin. “Beasts of the Southern Wild” has gone on to receive the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and the Cannes Film Festival Camera D’Or, and the Nantucket Film Festival New Voices in Screenwriting Award. She is a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, a two time finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and winner of Young Playwrights, Inc.

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Edith G. Amundsen

So like the film in mood, despite different details

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2013

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Charming, funny, heartbreaking, teaching me about a part of America, around the time of Hurricaine Katrina, I thought was covered by the media in detail. Clearly, however, I realized after reading this book, the media nearly ignored this part of the country and these people. What a genius this child seems to be - Hushpuppy saves himself and others with love and quick thinking in circumstances the average person cannot imagine. Yet even eating animal food, heating it first to make sure it tastes better, makes a sad kind of sense when the alternative is starvation. I will never forget him - he made me remember the little girl version from the film even more touching; somehow I saw that gender didn't matter. The theme from the film, "Once There Was a Hushpuppy," kept playing in my head as I read the book, so that for once I didn't mind that I'd seen the film before reading the book.

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Jan R. S.

Didn't get it!

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013

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Having seen "Beasts of the Southern Wild" three times and loving it more with each viewing, I just could not 'get' this play. I have tried to re-read it, but it loses me, or i lose it. anyway, the author is redeemed, in my estimation, with the script for the movie, which is magnificent. once you have seen the movie, i believe it makes reading the play more difficult. SEE THE MOVIE!!!

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AlG

Those wild beasts

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2013

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If you enjoyed the movie "Beasts of the Southern Wild" as much as I did, then the (very brief) play on which it is based will appeal greatly to you. It is about a little boy, not a little girl, and the plot structure is very different. But it will increase your enjoyment of the film to see the transitions that the movie people made (including the play's author) to get the story into film. The movie has been much honored. It is interesting to see its beginnings.

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Moving play leads to Moving Movie

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014

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This is the play which inspired its author to c0-write Beasts of the Southern Wild. The play has more than the movie and less than the movie. It's the skeleton but also the imagination of the film. If you liked BOTSW, you need to read this play.

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Christa

Not enough juiciness in the dialog...

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2015

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I was really excited to read this after seeing the movie. I really liked the movie, I feel like it let us into an entire different culture within a culture. It gave reason for choices that may not make sense and maybe even viewed as crazy or dangerous to me or most people, but made it seem believable as to why that was the only conclusion for these characters by brilliantly weeving in the spheres of society to show what the people believed about life.... But the play did not do that for me. It left me a bit depressed and confused. Maybe I don't have enough artistic genius, or maybe it really is just a bit weird and unexplainable. I didn't feel things were explained well through relationship at all. It was almost like the writer was trying too hard to be artsy and different. But see that's the thing about reviewing a play, one person can see something in such a different light than another, so this is not tearing down the writer, because I believe she could direct it very well, it just doesn't work for highschool students as well as I had hoped it would. Although I can envision some beautiful stage imagery, just wish their was more juiciness in the dialog to go with the beautiful imagery... Like in the movie script. Oh and the main thing I liked about the movie, the culture of the people in the flood area, was not evident to me in the play.... I feel the flood brought the whole story line together in the movie, even the imaginable bits like the aurochs, didn't get that from the play... Maybe I'll need to read it again now that I watched the movie again... But I'm pretty sure my opinion will stay the same. I think if the play had more of the monologues and explanations the movie did, it would work beautifully.

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Ann

over 70 and opinionated

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012

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i saw beasts of the southern wild which absolutely blew me away. best movie i've seen in years! bar none! had to read the play that inspired it. again i was totally enchanted and dazzled by alibar's creativity. bravo!! keep it up!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2014

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How could this play inspire such a motion picture. Except for a few phrases this book was a waste of money.

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Ronald L. Hamilton

The Movie is Better

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012

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I bought this VERY short play hoping for some depth or a deeper understanding of the movie. Just the opposite. The play is VERY short as I said, and if it hadn't been picked up by a genius and turned into a delightful movie, it would have disappeared into obscurity. Don't waste your money. If you saw the movie, you have seen enough.

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Thoughtful Cat

Luto metafórico

Reviewed in Brazil on July 31, 2016

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É um livro construído sob metáforas a respeito de perda, luto, como lidar com ele e experiências da infância e algumas delas bem triste. É bem curto, rápido de ler.

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