Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence Mcnally

Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence Mcnally

Drama Desk Award Winner for Outstanding New Play
 
"One of Mr. McNally's finest plays--and one that hasn't dated, despite its apparently topical subject matter."--The New York Times

"McNally's wit and wild comedy invariably score, and his darker intentions resonate, making Lips Together one of his most accomplished plays."--New York Daily News

"A brilliant comedy."--The New Yorker
 
At the heart of this haunting play is a dramatically incisive portrait of two married couples--the Trumans and the Haddocks. Uncomfortable with themselves and each other, they are forced to spend a Fourth of July weekend at the Fire Island house that the brother of one of the women left his sister when he died of AIDS. Though the house is beautiful, it is as empty as their lives and marriages have become, a symbol of their failed hopes, their rage, their fears, and of the capricious nature of death. Acerbic and haunting, Lips Together, Teeth Apart probes the stifled lives of people and their prejudices with a stunning clarity that resonates long after.
 
The author of such critically acclaimed plays as The Lisbon Traviata and Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune, Terrence McNally has graced the American theater with a voice that captures our fear of intimacy in the modern age with dead-on insight, wit, and poignancy. But never has he blended these disparate elements into such a brilliantly cohesive whole as he has in Lips Together, Teeth Apart, hailed by Frank Richard of the New York Times as McNally's "most ambitious and most accomplished play yet."

Terrence McNally, a four-time Tony Award winner, is the playwright of critically renowned plays such as Love! He's also written a number of TV screenplays, including Andre's Mother, for which he received an Emmy nomination. McNally has earned two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Hull-Warriner Awards for Best Play, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters commendation. He is a New Yorker.

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ISBN 13	9780452268074
ISBN 10	0452268079
Title	Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Author	Terrence Mcnally
Series	Drama Plume Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1992-05-01
Number of pages	112
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