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In this case, the father is a crank who has quit his scientific post in a dehumanizing laboratory to go fishing. He neglects his suicidal wife and their two very odd daughters. The catalyst for renewal is a black man, cloned to be a member of a faceless servant class. Removed from his diet of 'stoppers', pills that deny incentive, he becomes a rebel. As conceived by York.he is an engaging figure, awakening to his personality as well as to his racial identity.  Y York] has created a thought provoking comic parable about mankind's indomitability. As much as anything, the play is concerned with the survival of history itself .\u003cbr\u003e Mel Gussow, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655903551761,"sku":"GOR013257881","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881450758.jpg?v=1751436049"},{"product_id":"gerald-s-good-idea-the-secret-wife-the-snowflake-avalanche-book-y-york-9780881451771","title":"Gerald's Good Idea; the Secret Wife; the Snowflake Avalanche","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51184756130065,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51184756785425,"sku":"NIN9780881451771","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881451770.jpg?v=1750850962"},{"product_id":"framed-book-y-york-9780881454062","title":"Framed","description":"Joanie wants recognition for her paintings; her crime-boss husband, Nick, can ensure that she gets it. Slut-shirt May wants to learn how to paint so she can have a picture of her dead mother; her mechanic husband, Jake, wants to elevate himself to crime thug so that May will respect him. Nick just wants Joanie to love him the way he deserves . Two men, two women, two loopy marriages, some paintings, and some crime collide in this comedy about marriage, ambition and art. If there is a common thread in York's projects, it is that they are full of uncommon characters: children, 1960's housewives, black financial consultants, Native American activists. Very few of York's characters seem to have anything to do with the playwright herself . and her attention to those differences gives her work a frankly political spin . -American Theater . York herself has an ethereal, gentle quality. Her work has a piercing intuition. It is literate and often treads a line between blackness and humor . -MidWeek, Hawaii Though treating weighty issues, York doesn't clobber you with them, instead maintaining a light touch. While her themes may be familiar, she (finds) a fresh and individual approach . accurately capturing the quirks of human attitudes and interplay . -Houston Chronicle She makes her points by not taking herself too seriously, even as she offers astute observations . -New York Times York has a real flair for wry, intelligent humor . -Seattle Times York has a wonderful gift for writing funny lines, and she endows her characters with individual senses of humor . -Bellevue Journal American","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53429864104209,"sku":"NIN9780881454062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780881454062.jpg?v=1776418327"},{"product_id":"bleachers-in-the-sun-book-y-york-9780881454369","title":"Bleachers In The Sun","description":"Four middle-school girls, played by adults, remind us of what it meant to be eleven years old and how adulthood is perhaps less removed from the needs and desires of childhood than we may wish to acknowledge or admit. Why would adults go to see a play about eleven-year-olds? Possibly because none of us ever really stop being eleven. Y York's new drama, BLEACHERS IN THE SUN, holds a mirror up to grown-ups to darkly illuminate the world of modern adolescent girls, which is just like ours, only amplified. Love, betrayal, sexuality, addiction - all the virtue and vices of humanity are present here - distorted through the eyes of the youth to become something at once monstrous and beautiful. The premise is deceptively simple: four middle-school girls meet behind the bleachers to engage in the secretive business of growing up. One is fat; one is smart; one is rich; one is poor. All are confused and lonely. BLEACHERS is a version of ourselves we had hoped to leave behind on the playground as maturity and experience taught us to hide behind masks of civility and social custom. Eleven-year-olds, however, hover on the cusp between childhood and adulthood, occupying a brief and rare space in which their personalities are completely developed but they are not yet expected to behave as adults . It is both funny and frightening . Put simply, BLEACHERS IN THE SUN is a fantastic play. -Rachel Brown, Honolulu Weekly","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53429864759569,"sku":"NIN9780881454369","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780881454369.jpg?v=1776418330"},{"product_id":"and-l-a-is-burning-book-y-york-9780881455052","title":"...And L. A. 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Though treating weighty issues, York doesn't clobber you with them, instead maintaining a light touch. While her theme may be familiar, she has found a fresh and individual approach to it. Best of all, by accurately capturing the quirks of human attitudes and interplay, York keeps the play consistently funny, unflaggingly true and, at times, surprisingly touching. The central factor in its success is a memorable protagonist: the unglamorous, opinionated and outspoken Haddie. She's the sort you'd instantly peg as a bit of an oddball, likely a loner: the type who blurts out opinions and random pronouncements; who offers unsolicited advice to strangers at the supermarket ('buy this one, not that'); and who conducts long, heartfelt conversations with a pet fish in a plastic bag. She has taken as her own (and parrots) many notions she heard on T V or read somewhere, without thinking them through. Naturally, a lot of these ideas have a touch of paranoia about the inevitable 'they' who make all the world's trouble. Haddie is eccentric, exasperating, yet so desperate to connect that she's strangely endearing. Despite its early-'90s setting, this astutely observed play's themes are absolutely relevant. York gets exactly the way many people view issues of race and class, how people adopt any overheard opinions that sound reasonable enough, how the 'big story' at any particular moment colors our everyday perceptions. AND L.A. 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She'll make one point obliquely so that it sneaks up on you, then land the next one smack on the nose . the upshot is WOF keeps surprising you . keeps ringing true . -Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle Y York's WOF is one of those rare pieces of theater that scream brilliance, perfection, and soulfulness from beginning to end. WOF in its purest essence is about relationships, particularly family relationships, under extreme pressure. It is about life. It is about love. It is about making mistakes. It is about forgiveness and redemption. It is funny. 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