**Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama** "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports."--Linda Winer, _Newsday_ "An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we d
Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition)
β Scribed by Stephen Adly Guirgis
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 58 KB
- Edition
- TCG Edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Winner, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"Completely compelling . . . Galvanizing but not importunate. You could cry (I did), but you are always free simply to laugh instead." -- Jesse Green, New York
"Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and the profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us. His empathetic, poetic tales of ex-cons, addicts, and other men whom society would label losers return us, again and again, to a world that Guirgis, by virtue of his particular religion--the church of the streets--illuminates with the bright and crooked light of his faith." - Hilton Als, New Yorker
"A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death." - Pulitzer Prize Citation
Written with humor, tenderness, grit and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an...
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