Black Forest - Softcover

Giardina, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881453951 ISBN 13: 9780881453959

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, 2008

Synopsis

At an elite women's college in Massachusetts, two minor crises emerge during the fall semester: the philandering head of the English Department decides to callously end his affair with a colleague, and an aging professor is caught making unwanted sexual advances toward a student. But in the academic world of the early 21st century, there is no such thing as a minor crisis. For Jacob Freundlich, an English professor approaching middle age, the sudden necessity of making moral choices, rather than just teaching books about them, leads him into a devastating midlife crisis of his own. A comedy about the necessity, and the exquisite pain, of making choices. "Honest, intelligent...the play's dialogue has the exactly right academic-faculty sound to it; clearly, Giardina knows of what he writes." Variety "A class act...a play well worth auditing...Giardina balances his banter about the great writers with penetrating looks into the lives of the male teachers." Hartford Courant "In BLACK FOREST...the playwright Anthony Giardina says volumes about changes between the '50s and the present ... Attitudes toward transitions in educational, social and sexual attitude inform Mr Giardina's new play..." Alvin Klein, The New York Times "Edgy and biting and funny." Chronicle of Higher Education

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About the Author

Anthony Giardina is the author of novels including "White Guys" and one collection of stories. His short fiction and essays have appeared in "Harper s Magazine", " Esquire", "GQ", " "and "The New York Times Magazine", and his plays have been widely produced. He is a regular visiting professor at the Michener Center of the University of Texas. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Review

Honest, intelligent...the play's dialogue has the exactly right academic-faculty sound to it; clearly, Giardina knows of what he writes. --Variety

A class act...a play well worth auditing... Giardina balances his banter about the great writers with penetrating looks into the lives of the male teachers. --Hartford Courant

In BLACK FOREST...the playwright Anthony Giardina says volumes about changes between the 50s and the present.... Attitudes toward transitions in educational, social and sexual attitude inform Mr Giardina's new play. --Alvin Klein, The New York Times

A class act...a play well worth auditing... Giardina balances his banter about the great writers with penetrating looks into the lives of the male teachers. --Hartford Courant

In BLACK FOREST...the playwright Anthony Giardina says volumes about changes between the 50s and the present.... Attitudes toward transitions in educational, social and sexual attitude inform Mr Giardina's new play. --Alvin Klein, The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0881453951
• ISBN 13: 9780881453959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86