RRP : £14.99
Our Price : £12.74
Discount : 15%
Pub Date : February 2007
ISBN : 9780713683271
Format : Paperback
Dimensions : 198x129mm
Extent : 288 pages
Cast Info :
Other People m5 f1 The Coming World m1 f1 Where do we Live 13 f2 m/f2 Dying City m1 f1
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Contemporary Dramatists
Shinn Plays: 1
Other People, The Coming World, Where Do We Live, Dying City
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A first volume of four plays from the Amercian playwright whose play Dying City was a critical and popular success at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006.
· Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown. The play premièred in March 2000.
· Where Do We Live, set in a post-September 11 world, asks to what extent New York's liberal multicultural society is under threat and how much we should care about the state in which our neighbours live.
· The Coming World moves from Shinn's usual Manhattan environment to the coast of New England, where Dora is persuaded, against her better judgement, to help her ex, Ed, in a desperate attempt to escape from spiralling debt. Produced at the Soho Theatre in 2001.
· Dying City shifts between 2004 and 2005 - the eve of one brother's departure for Iraq and the day that his twin brother visits his now widowed sister-in-law. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006 to great critical acclaim.
The books also features an introduction by the author.
About the Author(s)
Christopher Shinn, a young American playwright from New York, has had a number of plays produced in the UK. They include Four (Royal Court Theatre, 1998); Other People (Royal Court Theatre, 2000); Where Do We Live (Royal Court Theatre, 2002); The Coming World (Soho Theatre, 2001), and Dying City (Royal Court Theatre, 2006).
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