Ironbound and Other Plays: Two Plays

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living, Martyna Majok has quickly earned recognition for her ability to shine a light on individuals and communities who are traditionally underrepresented and overlooked. In this new collection, which includes her plays Ironbound, Sanctuary City, and queens, Majok tells the stories of those who would otherwise go unheard--stories about immigrant women and the challenges they face while trying to make it in America. Throughout the plays in the collection, Majok explores the vulnerability and entrapment of those who must climb out of poverty in order to survive.

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"I have rarely seen a play that so effectively embodies the way external forces--in this case, immigration policies in the United States--distort the inner lives of actual humans. What love is, and can ever mean, is lost in the muddle between the heart and the law." --The New York Times on Sanctuary City

"Hypnotic and heartbreaking...Majok has given us something that transcends politics as only the best and most humane art can." --New York Stage Review on Sanctuary City

"[Majok] meticulously exposes the way that relationships contract and expand over the years... As her two main characters grow around each other like ivy, the poetry of patterned connection emerges most profoundly through memory's own twisted vines." --Slant on Sanctuary City

"Ms. Majok's perceptive drama, with its bone-dry humor and vivid characters, illustrates how vulnerable people like Darja are, hostages to the vagaries of chance, unless they can manage to climb out of poverty." --The New York Times on Ironbound

"You seldom see plays that are both harsh and wonderful, but that is the balance that Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok strikes...she writes with such energy and charisma that the play's four characters feel vivid and real...The play never sugarcoats, yet it steers clear of bleakness because Majok's language is so entertainingly alive." --The Washington Post on Ironbound

"[A] topical and insightful drama...a tough, moving portrait of a woman stuck in place." --Time Out New York on Ironbound

Author Bio

Martyna Majok's plays include Cost of Living, Ironbound, Queens and Sanctuary City. She is the recipient of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a Lucille Lortel Award, Lilly Award, Helen Hayes Award, Lanford Wilson Prize, Greenfield Prize, Jean Kennedy Smith Award, two Jane Chambers Awards, NYTW's 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Majok was the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and was a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.