Animals and Plants - Softcover

Rapp, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881453129 ISBN 13: 9780881453126

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, 2006

Synopsis

Two men are snowbound in a cheap motel room in Boone, North Carolina. On a pick-up errand for their drug dealing boss, ten-year partners Burris and Dantly await the arrival of the enigmatic "Burning Man." Talk of beef jerky, Pocahontas, and the various uses of stick deodorant fill the night, but the men's conversation is interrupted by a series of increasingly mysterious phone calls. Under a comic façade of buddies bonding in a blizzard, Rapp examines a friendship threatened by betrayal. "Rough-spoken, raunchy, and sometimes guffawingly funny, award-winning playwright and novelist Adam Rapp's ANIMALS AND PLANTS is very different from his NOCTURNE ... The sheer liveliness of Rapp's dialogue and his multifaceted characters keep his play afloat ... a lurid comic phantasmagoria of life on the underside of Middle America." -Markland Taylor, Variety

About this title

About the Author

Adam Rapp is the author of numerous young adult novels, including 33 Snowfish, Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, and The Buffalo Tree, which was the inspiration for his off-Broadway play The Metal Children. Adam Rapp has also written for TV (The L Word, In Treatment) and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2006. He lives in New York City.

Review

...his lively, anarchic imagination. ANIMALS AND PLANTS...is perhaps the most inventive play in Rapp's twisted oeuvre. --Chicago Reader

Rough-spoken, raunchy, and sometimes guffawingly funny, award-winning playwright and novelist Adam Rapp's ANIMALS AND PLANTS is very different from his NOCTURNE... The sheer liveliness of Rapp's dialogue and his multifaceted characters keep his play afloat. ...a lurid comic phantasmagoria of life on the underside of Middle America. --Markland Taylor, Variety

Rough-spoken, raunchy, and sometimes guffawingly funny, award-winning playwright and novelist Adam Rapp's ANIMALS AND PLANTS is very different from his NOCTURNE... The sheer liveliness of Rapp's dialogue and his multifaceted characters keep his play afloat. ...a lurid comic phantasmagoria of life on the underside of Middle America. --Markland Taylor, Variety

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0881453129
• ISBN 13: 9780881453126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74