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In today&#x;s dramatic world, few playwrights have the force of Kia Corthron.

While many have written as many plays as she has, few have written so many under commission. Fourteen of her twenty plays have been commissioned, which means Corthron was directly hired to write a plece for the commission granters&#x; playhouse.

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This shows the power of her work. Her plays encompass all range of human emotion, like most plays do, but Corthron pushes past the surface to dig deep into the human psyche.

Often called a political playwright, Corthron finds her plays in issues, not in characters or stories like other playwrights.

Most of her plays deal with African-American issues, yet skirt the realm of all human consciences. According to Weber in Columbia Magazine, Corthron pulls her ideas from movies, newspapers and the Zeitgeist, or the general moral, intellectual and cultural climate of an era.

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