Four Plays: A Thought in Three Parts, Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever - Softcover

Shawn, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525358 ISBN 13: 9780374525354

Publisher: Noonday Pr, 1998

Synopsis

This first collection of Wallace Shawn's plays from the seventies and eighties brings together A Thought in Three Parts, Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Fever - four incisive and provocative works that have disturbed theatergoers on both sides of the Atlantic. Shawn's themes include sex, historical guilt, the conflict between high and low culture, and the effort to define the self, all described in a remarkable, attentive language. Brilliant and biting, his plays are sometimes horrifying, sometimes hilarious, but never, ever dull.

About this title

From Booklist:

Shawn is best known as a small, cuddly, balding character actor who often plays little guys on the verge of personal crises. But for 20 years or so, he has been an off-Broadway playwright, penning vicious little comedies obsessed with portraying the dark side of life. In Marie and Bruce, for instance, he shows us, in one darkly funny act, a comically neurotic New York couple trapped in a decidedly sadomasochistic relationship. In Aunt Dan and Lemon, he reveals in several short, powerful scenes just how much a privileged life depends on the exploitation of those lower in the food chain. Rounding out this collection of four of Shawn's better-known works are his hard-to-find early play A Thought in Three Parts and the script to his brilliant 1990 solo show, The Fever, a starkly written, harrowing journey into one man's dark night of the soul that is as searing on the page as it is on the stage. Jack Helbig

About this edition

• Publisher: Noonday Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374525358
• ISBN 13: 9780374525354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228