Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Wallace Shawn
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 136
Category/GenreThe arts - general issues
Drama
Plays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9781559365208
ClassificationsDewey:812.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Publication Date 6 April 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

"Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at seventy-two, still comes across as precocious-probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in all the world's ills."-Variety "The play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded."-The Guardian Gathering around a table at the Talk House, an old haunt, a group of friends and theatre artists reunite after ten years to reminisce and catch-up on each other's lives. At first, the conversation is fairly run-of-the-mill: current TV shows and where their careers have taken them. Eventually, the discussion's tone takes a turn when they mention supplementing their incomes through the government-led program to enlist unemployed artists for drone strikes and carrying out violent attacks on foreign land. As is typical of Shawn's plays, the premise at once amuses and unsettles, forcing the viewer to wonder whether being too idle makes all of us complicit in the world's ongoing destruction. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His often politically-charged and controversial plays include The Fever, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Marie and Bruce, and The Designated Mourner. With Andre Gregory, he co-wrote My Dinner with Andre, in which he also starred. He adapted the classic Ibsen play A Master Builder for film.

Author Biography

Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His often politically-charged and controversial plays include The Fever, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Marie and Bruce and The Designated Mourner. With Andre' Gregory, he co-wrote My Dinner with Andre', in which he also starred. He adapted the classic Ibsen play A Master Builder for film.

Reviews

"Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at 72, still comes across as precocious probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in all the world's ills." Variety "The play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded." The Guardian "Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at 72, still comes across as precocious - probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in all the world's ills." - Variety "The play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded." - The Guardian