The Water Engine & Mr. Happiness - Softcover

Mamet, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573600570 ISBN 13: 9780573600579

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc., 2017

Synopsis

In The Water Engine, actors, an announcer, and a sound effects man present a radio play during the 1930s with unerring authenticity. The "play within the play" reveals the story of a young inventor who's found a way to run an engine on distilled water. At first ridiculed, he is courted by crooked lawyers attempting to buy the invention from him on behalf of "certain business interests." After refusing, he is threatened, and when he attempts to give his story to the newspapers, he is murdered alo

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In Uncle Vanya, a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the stagnant inevitability of the rituals of their life and class and mercilessly taxed by the encroachment of age at the expense of youth. All of the play's characters are plunged into that precarious state where, in Beckett's words, 'the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being.'

About the Author:

Curt Columbus is Artistic Director of The Trinity Repertory Company. His translations of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya are in the Plays for Performance series, published by Ivan R. Dee. Mr. Columbus lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0573600570
• ISBN 13: 9780573600579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84