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Stone cold dead serious : and other plays / Adam Rapp.
- Title
- Stone cold dead serious : and other plays / Adam Rapp.
- Author
- Rapp, Adam
- Publication
- New York : Faber and Faber, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3568.A6278 S76 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 240 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Adam Rapp's plays have captivated audiences across the country with their unflinching explorations of the good, the bad, and the ugly in America's heartland and cities. Gathered here are three of his latest works: 'Faster', in which two young grifters try to strike a deal with the devil during the hottest summer on record; 'Finer Noble Gasses', a lament for a band of arrested thirty-year-olds slouching toward adulthood amid East Village decay; and the Off-Broadway hit 'Stone Cold Dead Serious'. Honest, strange, and humorous, this play looks at a blue-collar family's struggle to survive in the face of disability and addiction, and the seemingly surreal lengths to which their teenage son will go to save them from themselves. It prompted Bruce Weber to rave in 'The New York Times': 'Stone Cold Dead Serious ... is the work of a playwright who is forging a real voice ... Its rendering of the shared language of loved ones illustrates how families can remain intimate even when they are in shards. Is depiction of a working-class America that is unable to dream of anything beyond enduring is as sincerely sad a commentary on our culture as I've seen in recent memory. And its fear for young people is, unfortunately, deeply convincing"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Drama.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Stone cold dead serious -- Faster -- Finer noble gases.
- ISBN
- 0571211399 (pb)
- LCCN
- ^^2003060352
- OCLC
- 52943095
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library