Misadventure Monologues And Short Pieces Book

THE STORIES: MISADVENTURE: MONOLOGUES AND SHORT PIECES brings together in one collection sixteen short works from one of the finest and most provocative voices in contemporary American theatre, Donald Margulies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner with Friends. Featured in this volume is LUNA PARK (2 men, 2 women, doubling), a forty-minute reverie about parents and children set in Coney Island in the early twentieth century, inspired by a short story by Delmore Schwartz. Other titles include: NOCTURNE (flexible casting.); MISADVENTURE (1 man, 1 woman.); LOUIE (1 man.); ANTHONY (1 man.); JOEY (1 man.); LOLA (1 man.); MANNY (1 man.); I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING (1 woman.); SOMNAMBULIST (1 woman.); FATHER AND SON (2 men.); DEATH IN THE FAMILY (2 men.); HOMEWORK (1 man, 1 woman.); FIRST LOVE (1 man, 1 woman.); NEW YEAR'S EVE (2 men, 1 woman.); KIBBUTZ (3 men.) Diabolical ingenuity and rueful tenderness‚¬¦dark wit and gentle lyricism‚¬¦lovely and devastating‚¬¦a playwright with a particularly pungent and intelligent vision. - NY Times. A playwright of most unusual imaginative power. - NY Post.