Dramatic Comedy
Characters: 6 male, 3 female
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After a scathing review 15 years ago, a once-celebrated painter
faded into impoverished obscurity. Can one chance encounter
resurrect this volatile artist from obscurity and re-launch him to
overnight success? Theresa Rebeck skillfully compares the gritty
urban realities of lives lived on the edge with the capricious
intrigues of the uptown gallery scene where fame might just be a
matter of who you know and reputations can be bought and sold.
"Ms. Rebeck writes passionlessly about passion, colorlessly
about art, self-importantly about the poor, tritely about the rich,
humorlessly about the ludicrousness of art as commerce." -The New
York Times
"Meaningful questions of morality, aesthetics and class
conflict." -The Seattle Times"Underneath her satirical surface,
equal to the best of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The School for
Scandal, Rebeck rekindles the troubling assertion that it was the
support of the political, financial and artistic establishment that
made possible the triumph of absract expressionist paintings and
transferred the capital of the art world from Paris to New York."
-New Haven Register
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