Name: Wallace Shawn Plays 1 By Wallace Shawn
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Wallace Shawn Plays 1: A Thought in Three Parts; Marie and Bruce; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Fever by Wallace Shawn

'There is a quality in Shawn's writing - imaginative verve, quiet intensity, a sort of puritan sensitivity or a blend of them all.' The Times

This first collection of Wallace Shawn's work contains plays from the seventies and eighties, including Aunt Dan and Lemon, described by Frank Rich in the New York Times as 'the most stimulating, not to mention demanding, American play to emerge this year'.

Aunt Dan and Lemon
'A mordant comedy for those who really listen in the theatre... A playwright of astonishing originality and veracity.' New York Times

Marie and Bruce
'A play that sees, hears, smells and tells more about the way we really live now than any American play in years... Wallace Shawn is a true original, one of the most deeply seeing, sharply writing playwrights we have.' Newsweek

The Fever
'A profoundly engaging and provocative journey through the awakening of a pampered man's conscience.' Newsday

A Thought in Three Parts
'Wallace Shawn's highly acclaimed play is a trio of playlets exploring the theme of sexual isolation, each in a very different dramatic style which still retains the author's quite distinctive ability to combine colloquialisms with highly poetic writing in a quirky, sinister way... nasty, hilarious and quite riveting for all the right reasons.' Time Out

About Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn's first play to be produced in New York was Our Late Night, directed by Andre Gregory at The Public Theater in 1975. A Thought in Three Parts was staged two years later by the Joint Stock Theatre Group in London, directed by Max Stafford-Clark. Shawn's next three plays - Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan & Lemon, and The Fever - were all performed in New York at the Public Theater and in London at the Royal Court. Aunt Dan and Lemon was revived in London in 1999 at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Tom Cairns. Shawn's next play, The Designated Mourner, premiered at the National Theatre, London, with Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson, and David de Keyser under the direction of David Hare, and was then performed in New York by Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, and Larry Pine under the direction of Andre Gregory. In 2009, the Royal Court held a Wallace Shawn season, reviving Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Fever, and staging the premiere of Grasses of a Thousand Colours. Shawn wrote the libretto for Allen Shawn's opera The Music Teacher, directed by Tom Cairns for The New Group in New York (2006). Shawn translated Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (performed in New York at the Roundabout, Studio 54, directed by Scott Elliott). Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory wrote and performed in the film My Dinner with Andre and Andre Gregory directed Shawn in Vanya on 42nd Street. Shawn has appeared as an actor in many films, including Manhattan, Clueless, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills,The Moderns, and The Wife. Shawn's Essays was published by Haymarket Books in 2009.

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GOR001406557

ISBN 13

9780571190928

ISBN 10

0571190928

Title

Wallace Shawn Plays 1: A Thought in Three Parts; Marie and Bruce; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Fever by Wallace Shawn

Author

Wallace Shawn

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

19970217

Number of pages

240

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Wallace Shawn Plays 1 by Wallace Shawn

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Wallace Shawn Plays 1 Summary

Wallace Shawn Plays 1: A Thought in Three Parts; Marie and Bruce; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Fever by Wallace Shawn

About Wallace Shawn

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