β Scribed by Richard Nelson
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Goodnight Children Everywhere
"Richard Nelson's new play announces itself almost as if it were Chekhovian . . . the play, like all plays of discovery and purgation, has a translucency and a density that nag, hurt and heal."--London Sunday Times
New England
"Smart, sharp, acridly funny . . . in the sweetest of all ironies, it's an American writer at the peak of his form who has given London's RSC the major new play that has eluded them all year."--Variety
Some Americans Abroad
"A sequel to The Innocents Abroad , Mark Twain's caustic view of pretentious Americans abroad: both works indict the well-educated American middle-class for its supine and superficial relationship to Old World culture."--New York Times
Two Shakespearean Actors
"Nelson's provocative account of the deadly rivalry between two great 18th-century actors."--Variety
Franny's Way
"Boundaries warp and melt in the dense...
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