The Flu Season and Intermission
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The Flu Season and Intermission by Will Eno
No one in the middle of being in love ever sat down to write a love story. It's only after the belongings are sorted and the shirts returned that the pencils are sharpened and the notebooks opened. So, in a serious way, love stories are never love stories. Love is their inspiration, yes, but the end of love is the reason for their existence. This is a problem. It proposes anti-journeys where we saw only journeys, directs things toward a new negative we hadn't intended. The Flu Season tries to be a love story, anyway. It has a strategy. The play revels in it's ambivalence, lives in fits and starts, and derives a flailing energy from its doubts about itself. But these come at a price, which is paid by the characters in the play. A kind of clarity finally comes. In the end, is the end.
"Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights I have come across in a number of yearsHis work is inventive, disciplined, and, at the same time, wild and evocative. His ear is splendid and his mind is agile." Edward Albee.
Will Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York. His play TRAGEDY: a tragedy, also published by Oberon Books, was performed at the Gate Theatre in 2001, and was later adapted for BBC Radio.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781840023701 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840023708 |
| Title | The Flu Season and Intermission |
| Author | Will Eno |
| Series | Oberon Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2003-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 82 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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