Belleville by Amy Herzog

Belleville by Amy Herzog

Americans Zack and Abby are bright, young and recently married. He’s a doctor combatting infant disease. She’s an actress, who also teaches yoga. It’s just before Christmas and they’re living the expat high life in bohemian Belleville, Paris. It’s all a little too perfect. Belleville was first produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2011, and transferred to New York Theatre Workshop in 2013. The play received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Michael Longhurst. Amy Herzog’s other plays include Mary Jane, Pulitzer Prize finalist 4000 Miles, After the Revolution and The Great God Pan.

'The beauty of Belleville is that while it arrives at a place of horror, which in lesser hands might smack of implausible melodrama, it never slackens its grip on truth… what makes it so disquieting – and accomplished – is that we're witness to the accumulative power of subtle nudges – each eggs the other on, wittingly and unwittingly, towards a primeval forest of fear, hurt and rage'

* Telegraph *

'A psychological thriller dressed up as a sitcom… the tension keeps ratcheting up'

* The Times *

'At times it's hard to watch, but impossible to tear your eyes away… a heart-wrenching, stomach-churning portrayal of a marriage in crisis'

* Radio Times *

'An exacting look at American millennials… an emotionally enervating psychological thriller [in which] Herzog ratchets the tension from homely to horror with real integrity and restraint'

* Whatsonstagecom *

'Riveting… a Hitchcockian study in physical and emotional displacement'

* The Arts Desk *

'Exerts a potboilerish grip on your attention and doesn't let go'

* Time Out *

'A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller... Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years'

* New York Times *

'Masterly... Among the new crop of young American playwrights, Herzog is in a class by herself'

* Time *

Amy Herzog's plays include Mary Jane (Yale Repertory Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, 2017; Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 2018); The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons, 2012); Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011; Donmar Warehouse, 2017; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); 4000 Miles (Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, 2011; Lincoln Center Theater, 2012; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Obie Award for the Best New American Play) and After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 2010). She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781848427259
ISBN 10	1848427255
Title	Belleville
Author	Amy Herzog
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2017-12-07
Number of pages	72
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.