In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this collection of his most popular plays. Included here are the noirish mystery _The Sacred Flame_ , the hilarious satires _The Circle_ , _The Constant Wife_ , and _Our Betters_ , an
Sex Plays 1 + 1, Skunkweed
โ Scribed by Eric Bogosian
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1559364149
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โฆ Synopsis
"A born storyteller with perfect pitch."--The New York Times
"Greatly and bilaterally talented . . . spiky, stinging, caustic without cauterizing. And funny."--New York
One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists offers his two newest plays: Skunkweed details the culture clash between a Los Angeles screenwriter and a working-class girl and her rural Florida clan in a hotel room, and 1+1 explores desire, greed, and responsibility to others through the lives of an aspiring actress, assistant restaurant manager, and a photographer. About the characters in 1+1 , Eric Bogosian recently stated, "Bri, Phil, and Carl are based on people I've found intensely interesting my whole life: a good-looking hustler, an ambitious pretty girl, and a 'good guy' who always seems to finish last. . . . The story is a parable. All my plays are. My plays are not expositions of a specific time and place....
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