LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brett neveu

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brett neveu

  • Megacosm
    Brett Neveu
       “The great joke of the universe—well, there are lots of great jokes of the universe. But one of them, certainly, is that human beings can’t be trusted with the things they’re capable of creating. We build combustion engines and choke on them, split atoms only to irradiate ourselves. Brett Neveu’s new farce does a fine, crazed, funny job of telling that joke. Chris is an inve...
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  • Harmless
    Brett Neveu
    'At first glance Brett Neveu’s new play looks like yet another ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama: a troubled college freshman submits a disturbingly violent first-person story to his fiction-writing class, consequently pitting an adjunct professor’s insistence on the student’s free-speech rights against the college president’s need to protect his institution’s reputation. (Th...
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    17,41 €

  • Old Glory
    Brett Neveu
    'Neveau's latest is a murder investigation, similarly filled with subterranean currents of subtext beneath vividly colloquial dialogues...The murder in OLD GLORY occurs in Fallujah where-never mind the war-two American GIs who share a barracks drive each other to paroxysms of mutual loathing. (So no, Gertrude, this is not really a play about the war but about the homefront) ......
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    15,93 €

  • Weapon Of Mass Impact
    Brett Neveu
    'Anxiety courses quietly throughout WEAPON OF MASS IMPACT, but not so quietly that it won't haunt you indefinitely.' TimeOut Chicago '...[a] thoroughly compelling new play... ...You come to see that we're probing the definition of terrorism here. You get the sense that [Neveu] is observing that the traumas of our individual lives can impart just as much individual misery...
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    15,77 €

  • a strange kinda heaven on some dark and sacred earth -- thirteen short plays by Brett Neveu
    Brett Neveu
    Written between 2000 and 2010 by award winning playwright Brett Neveu, these short plays are a mixture of sad, funny tales about human interaction and objects interceding into daily life. ...
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    16,94 €

  • Drawing War
    Brett Neveu
    A boy’s best friend has died after an accident whilst cleaning his gun. It is Christmas Eve, and he talks to his friend’s father after a church service. Next day he goes to his friend’s house to give cookies to the father and the brother of the dead boy. He is soon caught up in a whirlwind of events. First they all go and see the grandmother, then they go to bail out the mother...
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    17,20 €

  • Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing
    Brett Neveu
    An edgy suburban comedy. Three long-time friends meet at a bar, but before long they find themselves trapped in a crucible of competition and confession, both heartbreaking and sneaky-funny.'A remarkably fresh and witty piece of writing.' -Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune'The first half of the play follows a night of Kevin, Andy, and Mike’s barroom chatter. Neveu gets it exactl...
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    17,26 €

  • The Last Barbecue
    Brett Neveu
    An audacious and dark comedy about a ten-year reunion of a son’s high school graduation that coincides with the one-year anniversary of the next-door neighbor’s death.About the playwright:'Perhaps the city’s closest equivalent to a young [David] Mamet.' -Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune'One of the most prolific, intelligent, and innovative playwrights to write in Chicago in yea...
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