Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays, Vol. 2: Complete Full-Length Plays, 1999-2007 - Softcover

Rebeck, Theresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575254441 ISBN 13: 9781575254449

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2007

Synopsis

ABSTRACT EXPRESSION A forgotten artist is rediscovered only to have
tragedy descend. While society buzzes, his children lock horns over
the question of Who Owns the Art?

THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTION A family of artists have gathered to share a
weekend in the country when a young writer's assistant enters the
mix. A comedic and mournful exploration of love, family, fidelity,
and art.

BAD DATES Haley has been single-handedly raising a kid and running a
restaurant for five years; it's time to go out on a date. A hilarious
one-woman show that answers the age-old question "Do men and women
really need each other?" with a resounding yes.

THE WATER'S EDGE Seventeen years after tragedy destroyed his family,
Richard returns to confront his wife and grown children. This dark
Chekovian exploration of time, memory, and the possibility of
redemption ponders the question, "How do we achieve justice in a
world gone awry"?

THE BELLS Long ago, a Chinaman was lost in the Yukon during the gold
rush. When a Canadian bounty hunter appears, ancient crimes reveal
themselves. A surreal exploration of the landscape, and the psyche,
of murder.

THE SCENE An actor's frustrations with his busted career spin out of
control when he meets a modern-day siren who butchers the language
and destroys his world. A comic tragedy that examines the collapse
of American culture.

About this title

About the Author

Theresa Rebeck's most recent work includes her play MAURITIUS, opens October 4th at the Biltmore Theater on Broadway. The play is a darkly funny story about two half-sisters who come in conflict over a book of rare, potentially priceless postage stamps. Rebeck's many other plays include Bad Dates, Spike Heels, The Water's Edge, and The Scene, which will be presented this season in New York at Second Stage, also directed by Taichman. Her work has been widely produced both regionally and internationally.

From Booklist

Rebeck remains best known for full-length plays. The most successful to date (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), Omnium Gatherum, a witty meditation on post–9/11 America written in collaboration with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, isn't here. But the hilarious one-woman show (and success in American regional theater) about a middle-aged mom reentering the dating scene, Bad Dates, is, along with the smart and moving Abstract Expresssion, in which a woman deals with the sudden success of her long-neglected artist father. Helbig, Jack

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1575254441
• ISBN 13: 9781575254449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308