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
The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays, Volume 1 Bathsheba Doran, Will Eno, Itamar Moses, Jenny Schwartz
โ Scribed by Will Eno
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd.
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
This new series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights.
Volume One is introduced by Andre Bishop, Artistic Director of the Lincoln Center Theater, the most prestigious theatre in the USA. Each play is introduced by critically acclaimed writers themselves.
The volume includes:
KIN by Bathsheba Doran, (with an introduction by Chris Durang)
Kin sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world.
"Simply terrific. Perhaps the finest new play of the season. Funny and audacious, haunting, and exquisitely wrought." - Charles Isherwood, New York Times
MIDDLETOWN by Will Eno (with an introduction by Tracy Letts)
Middletown was awarded the prestigious Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play in 2010.
"Middletown glimmers from start to finish with tart, funny, gorgeous little comments on big things: the need for love and forgiveness, the search for meaning in life, the...
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