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3c (Paperback)
David Adjmi
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The war in Vietnam is over and Brad, an ex-serviceman, lands in
L.A. to start a new life. When he winds up trashed in Connie and
Linda's kitchen after a wild night of partying, the three strike a
deal for an arrangement that has hilarious and devastating
consequences for everyone. Inspired by 1970s sitcoms, 1950s
existentialist comedy, Chekhov and Disco anthems, 3C is a
terrifying yet amusing look at a culture that likes to amuse
itself, even as it teeters on the brink of ruin.
How's a queen to keep her head in the middle of a revolution? Marie
Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her
three-foot tall wigs and extravagant haute couture. But times
change and even the most fashionable queens go out of style. In the
humorous and haunting Marie Antoinette, idle gossip turns more
insidious as the country revolts, demanding liberte, egalite,
fraternite!
Characters: 2m, 4f / Drama David Adjmi received the first ever
Steinberg "Mimi" Playwright Award in 2009 Sixteen year old Lily
knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where
she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an
unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid
opens Lily's world to new possibilities - but at a huge price.
David Adjmi's daring new work shifts from caustic satire to violent
drama as it exposes the ways we invent and defend our identities in
the melting-pot of America. "Impossible to dismiss...An
artist...whose next work I can't wait to see" -Hilton Als, The New
Yorker "Virtuosic playwright David Adjmi nicely evokes an
arrestingly skewed subculture onstage...coolly witty...A stinging
portrait of an insular Syrian Jewish community in contemporary
Brooklyn." -Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
"The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays" is an anthology of
six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights
currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases
work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last
decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current
playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers
and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking
out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are
engaging with their current social and political environment. There
is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the
contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the
best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee,
Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays
range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national
and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on
life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's "Stunning," is an
excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood,
Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community;
Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic "The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry"
deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s
Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and
cultural history; Young Jean Lee's "Pullman, WA" deals with
self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive
three-character play; Katori Hall's "Hurt Village "uses the real
housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban
neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher
Shinn's "Dying City" melds the personal and political in a
theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu
Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's "The Big Meal," an
inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the
mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and
how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most
significant.
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