num_pages: 163
description: Based on an actualnewspaper story, the play follows the events of a prison atrocity that shocked the nation. Convicts leading a hunger strike in a Pennsylvania prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Its sympathetic treatment of black and homosexual characters may have kept the play unproduced in its own time.
language: English
title: Not About Nightingales
titlecomplete: Not About Nightingales
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, Fiction
ratings_count: 282
publisher: New Directions