Nagy Plays: 1: Weldon Rising; Disappeared; The Strip; Butterfly Kiss: v.1 (Contemporary Dramatists) - Softcover

Book 95 of 157: Contemporary Dramatists

Phyllis Nagy

 
9780413723703: Nagy Plays: 1: Weldon Rising; Disappeared; The Strip; Butterfly Kiss: v.1 (Contemporary Dramatists)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0413723704 ISBN 13: 9780413723703
Publisher: Methuen Drama (UK), 1998

Synopsis

Young playwrights don't come much hotter than Phyllis Nagy" (Daily Telegraph)

Includes
her three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon Rising "Here is the best
new play I have seen in many months...This play is exciting because it
is well written, unusually constructed and morally serious." (Financial
Times); in Butterfly Kiss "Nagy captures the texture of a life and
writes short, vivid, often disturbingly erotic scenes...it's a play
that leaves me proclaiming Nagy a writer of real talent" (Guardian),
Disappeared (winner of the Mobil Prize,1995) "A piece that gets right
under your skin...There's no neat solution to Nagy's conundrum, just a
fog of fear, despair, and most remarkably of all, a final mirage of
escape. Spine-tingling stuff" (Daily Telegraph) The Strip,
"kaleidoscopic and hugely accomplished dissection of fate, love and
chance" (Independent)

"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms
me in the belief that she is the finest playwright to have emerged in
the 1990s" (Financial Times)

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About the Author

Phyllis Nagy was born in New York City and has lived in London since 1992. Her plays, including Weldon Rising, Butterfly Kiss, Disappeared and The Strip, have been produced throughout the world and have received awards including the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, a Mobil Prize, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Eileen Anderson/Central Television Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. Phyllis is currently under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal Court Theatre, where she was recently writer-in-residence. She has adapted Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley for the Watford Palace Theatre while Never Land, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1998, while her version of Chekov's The Seagull was produced at Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2003.

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Publisher
Methuen Drama (UK)
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0413723704
ISBN 13 
9780413723703
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280