Plays by Sherry Kramer - Softcover

Sherry Kramer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881451843 ISBN 13: 9780881451849

Publisher: Broadway Play Pub, 2000

Synopsis

This collection contains three full-length plays: THE WALL OF WATERoriginally produced by Yale Repertory TheatreAwarded the LA-Women-in Theatre New Play AwardDAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH originally produced by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, D.C.Awarded the Jane Chambers Playwriting AwardTHINGS THAT BREAK originally produced by the Theatre of the First Amendment, D.C.Nominated: Helen Hayes New Play Award

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Review:

on DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH: ...Sherry Kramer's inventively structured, colorfully written and frequently lyrical play...The narrative fluidly shifts back and forth between the present and the span of a few days two years earlier, when Jean and Marilyn met and Jean received the fateful phone call from home informing her of David's death. ...this thoughtful meditation on loss. --Douglas J Keating, The Philadelphia Enquirer

Sherry Kramer's THINGS THAT BREAK is a terribly difficult, painfully beautiful play in which everything is broken.
The storytelling is jagged, taking surreal twists as it shifts back and forth between the worried wife of a man having heart surgery and her grown son and daughter.... This is a wildly imaginative piece of work. ...listening to Miss Kramer's kaleidoscopic language...is like being under some hallucinogenic anesthetic. --Nelson Pressley, The Washington Times

THE WALL OF WATER quickly bursts through the dam of conventional theater for two hours of the kind of inspired and breathtaking chaos so rare on America's stages that we may have forgotten the word for it. The word is farce.... Even though Sherry Kramer's play is gleefully packed with all those most cherished elements of classic farce mistaken identity, miscommunicated messages, misunderstood orders the exasperations which fuel the play's wacky fires from start to finish are recognizably and sometimes grimly contemporary.... What distinguishes Kramer's farce from even her most esteemed European counterparts is four strong female roles at the heart of this eloquent craziness. --Margaret Spillane, New Haven Independent

Sherry Kramer's THINGS THAT BREAK is a terribly difficult, painfully beautiful play in which everything is broken.
The storytelling is jagged, taking surreal twists as it shifts back and forth between the worried wife of a man having heart surgery and her grown son and daughter.... This is a wildly imaginative piece of work. ...listening to Miss Kramer's kaleidoscopic language...is like being under some hallucinogenic anesthetic. --Nelson Pressley, The Washington Times

THE WALL OF WATER quickly bursts through the dam of conventional theater for two hours of the kind of inspired and breathtaking chaos so rare on America's stages that we may have forgotten the word for it. The word is farce.... Even though Sherry Kramer's play is gleefully packed with all those most cherished elements of classic farce mistaken identity, miscommunicated messages, misunderstood orders the exasperations which fuel the play's wacky fires from start to finish are recognizably and sometimes grimly contemporary.... What distinguishes Kramer's farce from even her most esteemed European counterparts is four strong female roles at the heart of this eloquent craziness. --Margaret Spillane, New Haven Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0881451843
• ISBN 13: 9780881451849
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179