Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367768
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a six hundred-pound shut-in's last chance at redemption and of discovering beauty in the most unexpected places when he reaches out to his long-estranged—and severely unhappy—daughter. Hunter's second piece, the Obie Award-winning A Bright New Boise, is a philosophical investigation of faith and search for meaning in rural Idaho where a disgraced evangelical is forced to take a minimum-wage job at the local Hobby Lobby craft store in an effort to reunite with his estranged son.
The Whale / A Bright New Boise
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367768
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a six hundred-pound shut-in's last chance at redemption and of discovering beauty in the most unexpected places when he reaches out to his long-estranged—and severely unhappy—daughter. Hunter's second piece, the Obie Award-winning A Bright New Boise, is a philosophical investigation of faith and search for meaning in rural Idaho where a disgraced evangelical is forced to take a minimum-wage job at the local Hobby Lobby craft store in an effort to reunite with his estranged son.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367768
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a six hundred-pound shut-in's last chance at redemption and of discovering beauty in the most unexpected places when he reaches out to his long-estranged—and severely unhappy—daughter. Hunter's second piece, the Obie Award-winning A Bright New Boise, is a philosophical investigation of faith and search for meaning in rural Idaho where a disgraced evangelical is forced to take a minimum-wage job at the local Hobby Lobby craft store in an effort to reunite with his estranged son.
Lewiston / Clarkston
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 0573707960
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development, their future is secure. Enter Marnie, Alice’s long-lost granddaughter, proposing to buy the land to save her family’s legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other’s deeply held secrets, uncertain pasts, and hopeful futures. Hunter, a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection, poignancy, and a profound sense of empathy.
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 0573707960
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development, their future is secure. Enter Marnie, Alice’s long-lost granddaughter, proposing to buy the land to save her family’s legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other’s deeply held secrets, uncertain pasts, and hopeful futures. Hunter, a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection, poignancy, and a profound sense of empathy.
The Few
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573704000
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Four years ago, Bryan abandoned his labor of love, a newspaper for truckers. Now he's returned - with no world of where he's been - and things have changed. His former lover is filled with rage, his new coworker is filled with incessant adoration, and his paper is filled with personal ads. As he considers giving up for good, Bryan searches for what he couldn't find on the road: a way to keep faith in humanity.
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573704000
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Four years ago, Bryan abandoned his labor of love, a newspaper for truckers. Now he's returned - with no world of where he's been - and things have changed. His former lover is filled with rage, his new coworker is filled with incessant adoration, and his paper is filled with personal ads. As he considers giving up for good, Bryan searches for what he couldn't find on the road: a way to keep faith in humanity.
The Harvest
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573706080
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In the basement of a small evangelical church in southeastern Idaho, a group of young missionaries is preparing to go to the Middle East. One of them - a young man who has recently lost his father - has bought a one-way ticket. But his plans are complicated when his estranged sister returns home and makes it her mission to keep him there.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573706080
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In the basement of a small evangelical church in southeastern Idaho, a group of young missionaries is preparing to go to the Middle East. One of them - a young man who has recently lost his father - has bought a one-way ticket. But his plans are complicated when his estranged sister returns home and makes it her mission to keep him there.
Greater Clements
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Typescript, dated [Draft 5.1] 12/5/19. Typescript lightly marked with pencil by videographer. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on Jan. 19, 2020, when videorecording the Lincoln Center Theater stage production in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater,150 West 65th Street, New York, N.Y. Set in Greater Clements, Idaho, the drama opened Dec. 9, 2019, directed by Davis McCallum.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Typescript, dated [Draft 5.1] 12/5/19. Typescript lightly marked with pencil by videographer. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on Jan. 19, 2020, when videorecording the Lincoln Center Theater stage production in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater,150 West 65th Street, New York, N.Y. Set in Greater Clements, Idaho, the drama opened Dec. 9, 2019, directed by Davis McCallum.
A Great Wilderness
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573704017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
"Drama / 3m, 3f / interior set"--Back cover.
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573704017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
"Drama / 3m, 3f / interior set"--Back cover.
Daphne's Dive
Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822236109
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
In a tucked away corner of North Philly, six regulars gather at a neighborhood watering hole. Over twenty years, they turn their collective memories into a vivacious mythology. The tales they’d rather forget, however, keep sneaking up and tapping them on the shoulder. At Daphne’s Dive, an aloe plant, a girl’s sneaker, a stiff drink, and mounds of trash become talismanic treasures to a group of outsiders trying to be “in” together.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822236109
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
In a tucked away corner of North Philly, six regulars gather at a neighborhood watering hole. Over twenty years, they turn their collective memories into a vivacious mythology. The tales they’d rather forget, however, keep sneaking up and tapping them on the shoulder. At Daphne’s Dive, an aloe plant, a girl’s sneaker, a stiff drink, and mounds of trash become talismanic treasures to a group of outsiders trying to be “in” together.
Five Plays
Author: Samuel D. Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559365017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author's home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. The plays included in this volume are: Pocatello The Few A Great Wilderness Rest A Permanent Image Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps, and struggling businesses.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559365017
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author's home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. The plays included in this volume are: Pocatello The Few A Great Wilderness Rest A Permanent Image Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps, and struggling businesses.
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217992
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult in the
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217992
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult in the
Thom Pain (based on nothing) [TCG Edition]
Author: Will Eno
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367644
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"Astonishing in its impact. . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life’s worth."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “Eno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure."--David Cote, TimeOut New York "Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights I've come across in a number of years. His work is inventive, disciplined and, at the same time, wild and evocative."--Edward Albee When Will Eno's one-person play Thom Pain opened in New York in February 2005, it became something rare--an unqualified hit, which soon extended through July. Before that, the play was a critical success in London and received the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Dubbed "stand-up existentialism" by The New York Times, it is lyrical and deadpan, both sardonic and sincere. It is Thom Pain--in the camouflage of the common man--fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light. Will Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy, King: a problem play, and Intermission. His plays have been produced in London by the Gate Theatre and BBC Radio, and in the United States by Rude Mechanicals and Naked Angels. His play The Flu Season recently won the Oppenheimer Award, presented by NY Newsday for the previous year's best debut production in New York by an American playwright.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367644
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"Astonishing in its impact. . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life’s worth."--Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “Eno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure."--David Cote, TimeOut New York "Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights I've come across in a number of years. His work is inventive, disciplined and, at the same time, wild and evocative."--Edward Albee When Will Eno's one-person play Thom Pain opened in New York in February 2005, it became something rare--an unqualified hit, which soon extended through July. Before that, the play was a critical success in London and received the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Dubbed "stand-up existentialism" by The New York Times, it is lyrical and deadpan, both sardonic and sincere. It is Thom Pain--in the camouflage of the common man--fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light. Will Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy, King: a problem play, and Intermission. His plays have been produced in London by the Gate Theatre and BBC Radio, and in the United States by Rude Mechanicals and Naked Angels. His play The Flu Season recently won the Oppenheimer Award, presented by NY Newsday for the previous year's best debut production in New York by an American playwright.