Rosary Hartel O’Neill, a seventh-generation New Orleanian, grew up inside the magic and pageantry of New Orleans and has lived there and on the star-studded east and west coasts. THE VAMPIRE TRILOGY AND THE CELEBRITY PLAYS mines the world of bizarre unreal heroes: vampires grown fierce from fighting. Celebrities proud, tortured, humorous in all their exotic wonderment. The Vampire Trilogy is about love—the delectable kind that smothers you. Rosary takes you to St. Louis Cemetery, far beyond the boundaries of civilized society, and to golden cities where the famous bask in anxious waters. We root for characters as they follow a higher calling, to be different from what circumstances show them to be. As death flings them beyond the boundaries of their known life, we discover the secrets of mortality and why the famous continue to be some of the most fascinating beings in the universe. Love stories with deathly subtexts, the plays, grounded in true events, bring you into a world rarely seen.

The Vampire Trilogy and the Celebrity Plays

Literature & Fiction

O'Neill, Rosary Hartel

Genre Fiction

Rosary Hartel O'Neill

Both anthologies are about New Orleans: the past and the present. This author has grown up in this city, and there is a certain timelessness about it - the past definitely influences the present. All the plays are permeated with

A Louisiana Gentleman and other New Orleans Comedies: Vol 1

Literary

Trafford Publishing

As playgoers hear the voices in Marilyn Monroe's head and encounter seven visitors to James Dean, they must rethink their relationships with cultural icons. As they ride through a Louisiana swamp in the middle of a hurricane, they must rethink their own lives and losses. O'Neill can somehow enable her audiences to laugh uproariously while re-examining the lies they have been telling themselves. Katherine H. Adams, HUTCHINSON PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS Rosary O'Neill's third volume of plays certainly provides ample evidence of the playwright's versatility and artistic fertility. As our resident dramatist, our 112 year-old institution is so proud we have this gifted artist at this period of world history that has never needed more the power of theatre to confront, alert, and awaken. O. Aldon James PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, NEW YORK, NY Rosary's work has scope: From her Southern Gothic roots, her epic collection of plays about a dysfunctional Louisiana family, to that Boulevard of broken dreams, Hollywood. Finally on to her great insights into the worlds of other great artists of the past, Rosary leaves no stone unturned. Peter Bloch DIRECTOR, NEW YORK, NY

Afterlife: Ghostly Comedies

Dramas & Plays

iUniverse

The grit and grandeur of New Orleans helped give rise to an icon of French Impressionism. 
Edgar Degas's mother was from New Orleans and from the time he buried her, he pined for Louisiana. In 1872, when he arrived, he found New Orleans wracked with devastation. He struggled with the conflict of helping his family' bankrupt cotton business, while pursuing his passion to paint. Amidst this turmoil, blossomed a tragic friendship with his blind sister-in-law, his beautiful muse. Edgar nearly went mad when he discovered his brother had gone through all the family money, and was having an affair with his wife's best friend. This book rips open the divide between Edgar and his brother that kept them from speaking for ten years, and led Edgar to start a new direction in his work: Impressionism.

Edgar Degas in New Orleans

Arts & Photography

Schmitt, Rory O'Neill

History & Criticism

The History Press

New Orleans Voodoo: A Cultural History

There is no more compelling nor more spiritual city than New Orleans. The city's Roman Catholic roots and its blended French, Spanish, Creole and American Indian populations heavily influenced the rites and rituals that West Africans brought to Louisiana as enslaved laborers. The resulting unique Voodoo tradition is now deeply rooted in the area. Enslaved practitioners in the nineteenth century held Voodoo dances in designated public areas like Congo Square but conducted their secret rituals away from the prying eyes of the city. By 1874, some twelve thousand New Orleanians attended Voodoo queen Marie Laveau's St. John's Eve rites on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. The Voodoo tradition continues in the Crescent City even today. Rory Schmitt and Rosary O'Neill study the altars, art, history and ceremonies that anchor Voodoo in New Orleans culture.

Travel

History Press Library Editions

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