'Weldon Rising' & 'Disappeared' (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Nagy, Phyllis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413701506 ISBN 13: 9780413701503

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 1996

Synopsis

"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she is
the finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Alistair Macaulay,
Financial Times)
Weldon
Rising: Downtown New York. The temperature is soaring. In the
meat-packing district, Natty Weldon's lover is casually butchered by a
homicidal homophobe. The witnesses do not intervene. Natty flees in
terror, two lesbians watch from their apartment window and a flamboyant
transvestite prostitute cowers in the street below. But life changes
for them after the murder.
Disappeared: Sarah Casey, a travel
agent who has never been anywhere, meets the mysterious Elston Rupp in
a bar in New York's Hell's Kitchen. They walk out together and she is
never seen again. Was she murdered, has she escaped from the city of
loners, or has she simply vanished?
Nagy is "the laconic laureate of this spiritual wasteland" (Paul Taylor, Independent)

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From the Back Cover

Weldon Rising. Downtown New York. The temperature is soaring. In the meat-packing district, Natty Weldon's lover is casually butchered by a homicidal homophobe. The witnesses do not intervene. Natty flees in terror, two lesbians watch from their apartment window and a flamboyant transvestite prostitute cowers in the street below. But life changes for them all after the murder. Disappeared. Sarah Casey, a travel agent who has never been anywhere, meets the mysterious Elston Rupp in a bar in New York's Hell's Kitchen. They walk out together and she is never seen again. Was she murdered, has she escaped from the city of loners, or has she simply disappeared?

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413701506
• ISBN 13: 9780413701503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128