An edition of The open house (2014)

Open house

Samuel French acting edition.

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An edition of The open house (2014)

Open house

Samuel French acting edition.

"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 hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop."--Provided by publisher.

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Samuel French
Language
English
Pages
71

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Cover of: The open house
The open house
2015, Theatre Communications Group
in English - First edition.
Cover of: Open house
Open house
2014, Samuel French
in English - Samuel French acting edition.

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Edition Notes

"Dramatic comedy / 3m, 2f / interior set"--Back cover.

Includes "alternate ending" on page 71.

"First produced by the Signature Theatre at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre in New York City on February 11, 2014"--Page [4].

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54
Library of Congress
PS3555.N652 O64 2014b, PS3555.N652

The Physical Object

Pagination
71 pages
Number of pages
71

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37774053M
Internet Archive
openhouse0000enow
ISBN 10
0573703094
ISBN 13
9780573703096
OCLC/WorldCat
894025857

Work Description

""Anarchic and deliciously clever."-The Huffington Post"If the American family drama were a trout (stay with me), playwright Will Eno would gut it, shellac it, mount it on a plaque, and make it wiggle and croon 'Take Me to the River.' What I mean is that his work combines studied banality, sneaky weirdness, and formal ingenuity."-Time Out New York. 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 hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. The Open House is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission.Acclaimed playwright Will Eno brings his signature irreverence to this subversive sendup of the archetypal family drama. The Open House won the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. Will Eno's most recent plays include The Open House (Signature Theatre, New York, 2014; Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play), Gnit (Humana Festival of New American Plays, 2013) and The Realistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 2012; Broadway, 2014). His play Middletown received the Horton Foote Prize, and Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York. "--

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