Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Women Authors

With two distinctive acts, Blue Heart adheres to the award-winning playwright's famously experimental style. This revised edition features two related parts--Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle--both teasingly entertaining and brilliantly executed, one about a father and daughter, the other about a mother and son, each pushing the boundaries of what the medium of theatre can be.

Caryl Churchill's plays include Cloud 9, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and...

"Drawing on the immediacy of overheard conversation, she has pioneered a style of theatre made to seem as untheatrical as possible, while using the tools of the stage to focus audience attention. . . . To watch Baker's work is to be drawn into a world that feels as unplotted as real life . . . but that breaks abruptly into surreal transcendence."--Nathan Heller, New Yorker

"Ms. Baker, one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off-Broadway in the past decade, writes with tenderness and keen insight about the way people make messes of their lives--and the...

One of the most-talked about new plays of the 2016 Off-Broadway season, Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves opened to enthusiastic acclaim, including two sold-out, extended runs at The Playwrights Realm/The Duke on 42nd Street.

The Wolves follows the 9 teenage girls--members of an indoor soccer team--as they warm up, engage in banter and one-upmanship, and fight battles big and small with each other and themselves. As the teammates warm up in sync, a symphony of overlapping dialogue spills out their concerns, including menstruation (pads or tampons?), is Coach hung over?,...

"Remarkable...ADULT acquires a kind of quiet force."
The Village Voice

"It's a blessing and relief to see people on stage like Stanley and Tara: beautifully drawn...treated with rough, cuffing affection by their portraitist... Masciotti has made brilliantly two rich characters... Her character work can't be surpassed."
Time Out New York

"Christina Masciotti treats her characters with a kindness and patience that are usually accorded to only the very young or very old... This playwright has a distinctive gift for finding an original poetry in everyday speech."

After Warren proposes to Josie, she decides she must make one last attempt to find her long-lost father before she walks down the aisle. She sets off that morning on a journey across the mountains.

When her car breaks down and she's invited into the Wright's home she's dumbstruck to find her father there, living a perfect life with a perfect wife and daughter--oblivious of his past. Desperate to stay she agrees to anything asked of her--giving up her identity, her past and ultimately her voice.

When Warren arrives and is captured by the spell of the Wrights, Josie must decide...