Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead - Hardcover

Eric-bogosian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568651368 ISBN 13: 9781568651361

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 1995

Synopsis

"Combustibly funny... Bogosian explodes and crackles like a lit firecracker that just won't quit." - Jan Stewart, New York Newsday

"Sheer virtuosity." - Nancy Franklin, New Yorker

In his fifth, brashest solo show, Eric Bogosian again aims scorching social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene. From subway panhandlers to barbecue-crazed millionaires, Bogosian reveals the hidden humor, fear, hypocrisy and rage of Americans - including, for the first time, "Eric Bogosian," a hyperaggressive standup comic. With this seductive element of self-revelation, he heightens the disturbing connections between his characters and, by extension, between us and the people we try not to see - and not to be - every day.

One of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian’s solo-performance career.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Bogosian is the OBIE-award winning writer and performer of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Drinking in America. His plays Suburbia and Talk Radio have both been made into major motion pictures.

Synopsis:

The playwright presents a series of unconnected monologues which attempt to decipher the state of contemporary American society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1568651368
• ISBN 13: 9781568651361
• Binding: Hardcover