Back Back Back; Celebrity Row; Outrage: Three Plays - Softcover

Moses, Itamar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865479054 ISBN 13: 9780865479050

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2009

Synopsis

Since the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere of "Bach at Leipzig" in 2005, Itamar Moses has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work today. Collected in this volume are three plays that span his career to date. As with "Bach at Leipzig", Moses here blurs the line between fact and fiction, using today's most compelling issues along with public figures past and present to explore ideas of freedom, morality, and truth. In his most recent work, "Back Back Back", the pressures of performance and reputation get the best of three professional baseball players when they are forced to confront the not-so-natural secrets some use to win the game. With "Celebrity Row', Moses imagines what Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, 1993 World Trade Centre bomber Ramzi Yousef, and Latin Kings leader Luis Felipe would have philosophized about while they were inhabitants of Colorado Supermax, the most secure prison in America. And finally, in "Outrage", one of Moses' earliest plays, the dangerous teacher/disciple relationship calls all of academia into question with the help of none other than Socrates and Bertolt Brecht.

About this title

About the Author

Itamar Moses' previous works include Bach at Leipzig (Faber, 2005) and The Four of Us (Faber, 2008). He lives in Brooklyn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865479054
• ISBN 13: 9780865479050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324