“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time “Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times “In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of intellectual snobs...
“[Our Late Night is] a short play, but a savage one…Neurosis, panic and sexual surreality underlie Shawn’s startling vision of New Yorkers at play.”—Guardian Wallace Shawn’s OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts—currently out of...
"Aufhören, nachdenken. Und noch einmal anfangen. Anders." Wallace Shawn Männlich, weiß, ein wohlhabendes und gebildetes Elternhaus: Dem US-Amerikaner Wallace Shawn wurden die Privilegien in die Wiege gelegt. Doch was passiert, wenn man anfängt, das, was selbstverständlich erscheint, zu hinterfragen und feststellt: Ich bin auf der Seite, die Gewalt ausübt? In seinen Nachtgedanken spricht Shawn leise, einfach, aber umso eindringlicher über Herrschaftsverhältnisse und soziale...
"Brilliantly upsetting and endearing . . . riveting."— Newsday An updated and revised edition of Wallace Shawn's most outlandish work to date.This poetic epic about a scientist, his wife, and his two mistresses as they fend for their lives in a world savagely close to extinction, raises issues of redemption, forgiveness, and responsibility. Grasses of a Thousand Colors is a troubling, erotic adventure that received high critical praise for its first New York City revival in...
• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton• Four star review in The Guardian• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David...
