Edward Albee has said, "Will Eno is one of the finest young playwrights I have come across in a number of years. Eno's work is inventive, disciplined, and, at the same time, wild and evocative." This play has opened to wide acclaim at London's Gate Theatre this year. Eno has also recently filmed a version of his first play "Tragedy: a tragedy "called "Night, Night," His new play will be produced by the Rude Mechanicals next year.
Edward Albee has said, "Will Eno is one of the finest young playwrights I have come across in a number of years. Eno's work is inventive, disciplined,...
These largely sane plays feature people alone or in pairs, or both, attempting to present themselves in the best light, or ultimately, desperately, in any light. Inadvertently vulnerable, or unconsciously callous, or both, the characters here realize they are stuck in a body and try to put the best face on it.
These largely sane plays feature people alone or in pairs, or both, attempting to present themselves in the best light, or ultimately, desperately,...
-A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile... The marvel of Mr. Eno's voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes--'Don't ever change, ' 'Who knows'--are turned inside out or twisted into blunt, unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily word-drunk.- --Charles Isherwood, New York Times on Title and Deed -Title and Deed is daring within its masquerade of the mundane, spectacular within its...
-A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile... The marvel of Mr. Eno's voice is how naturally it combines a ...
Is laziness the opposite of love? Is the search for the Self for total nobodies? These are questions posed through the prolific pen of Will Eno, one of America's leading contemporary playwrights, whose talents for playful idiosyncratic language shine through in "Gnit." Watch closely as Peter Gnit, a funny-enough but so-so specimen of humanity, makes a lifetime of bad decisions, on the search for his True Self, which is disintegrating while he searches. A rollicking and very cautionary tale about, among other things, how the opposite of love is laziness. "Gnit" is a faithful, unfaithful, and...
Is laziness the opposite of love? Is the search for the Self for total nobodies? These are questions posed through the prolific pen of Will Eno, one o...
WINNER of the inaugural Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New Play of 2010 "Middletown" is a deeply moving and funny new play exploring the universe of a small American town. As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and poignant ways in a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and points between.
WINNER of the inaugural Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New Play of 2010 "Middletown" is a deeply moving and funny new play exploring the unive...
WINNER 2014 Lucille Lortel Award - Outstanding Play WINNRE 2014 Obie Award - Playwrighting (Will Eno) & Direction (Oliver Butler) WINNER 2014 Drama Desk Special Award People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write Family Plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, "Can things really change?" People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what...
WINNER 2014 Lucille Lortel Award - Outstanding Play WINNRE 2014 Obie Award - Playwrighting (Will Eno) & Direction (Oliver Butler) WINNER 2014 Drama...