Craig Wright is one of the most widely produced, consistently
entertaining playwrights of his generation. The three plays
gathered in this volume--Melissa Arctic (winner of the 2005 Helen
Hayes Award), Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion--are all set in
the fictional town of Pine City, Minnesota. The plays share a focus
on love and relationships and feature a consistent undercurrent of
observation and speculation about the nature of time. Melissa
Arctic brings Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale into the present,
retaining the original's captivating mix of the comic and tragic. A
brutally frank exploration of marriage, Orange Flower Water
examines the irresistible lure and poisonous effects of unrealistic
expectations within love, and portrays the inescapably compromised
contours of relationships founded on adultery. The Pavilion, a
lyrical and rueful homage to Our Town, is a meditation on dashed
dreams and unquenchable hopes, set at a twenty-year high school
reunion. In all three plays, Wright shows himself to be one of the
most perceptive and engaging playwrights working today.
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