Stage Kiss

✍ Scribed by Ruhl, Sarah

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 48 KB
• Edition: First editon
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1559364297

✦ Synopsis

"Wickedly clever . . . Ruhl's unique, breezily elegant dialogue is fully present, as is her pleasingly loopy logic."— Variety "In the smart, rollicking Stage Kiss . . . passion and fidelity engage in a kind of elegant pas de deux. . . . The play manages to be both wholly original and instantly recognizable . . . with its combination of hilarity and trenchancy."— The New Yorker Award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl brings her unique mix of lyricism, sparkling humor, and fierce intelligence to her new romantic comedy, Stage Kiss. When estranged lovers He and She are thrown together as romantic leads in a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama, the line between off-stage and on-stage begins to blur. A "knockabout farce that channels Noël Coward and Michael Frayn" ( Chicago Tribune ), Stage Kiss is a thoughtful and clever examination of the difference between youthful lust and respectful love. Ruhl, one of America's most frequently produced playwrights, proves that a kiss is not just a kiss in this whirlwind romantic comedy, which will receive its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in winter 2014. Sarah Ruhl 's other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and The Clean House , as well as Passion Play , Dead Man's Cell Phone , Demeter in the City , Eurydice , Melancholy Play , and Late: a cowboy song. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her plays have premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and have been produced in many theaters around the world.

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Review

“A gift and a rarity: a superb new romantic comedy that’s moving, smart and flat-out hilarious... You will have difficulty breathing. Stage Kiss is that funny.” — Jesse Green, New York

“In Stage Kiss passion and fidelity engage in a kind of elegant pas de deux…At once a knowing send-up of the hazy half-truths of stage naturalism and a meditation on the nature of desire and sexual fantasy, the play manages to be both wholly original and instantly recognizable.” — John Lahr, New Yorker

“A knockabout farce that channels Noël Coward and Michael Frayn.” — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

“Wickedly clever... Ruhl’s unique, breezily elegant dialogue is fully present.” — Steven Oxman, Variety

“A lively blend of romantic comedy and backstage farce... Stage Kiss reminds us of how the artifice of theater can stir real emotions not just for those who create it, but for those who attend it, too.” — Charles Isherwood, New York Times (2015-02-24)

About the Author

Sarah Ruhl's other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and The Clean House , as well as Passion Play, Dean Man's Cell Phone, Demeter in the City, Eurydice, Melancholy Play , and Late: a cowboy song. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her plays have premiered on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in many theaters around the world.

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- General