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Other People; The Coming World; Where Do We Live; Dying City
Shinn Plays: 1
Other People; The Coming World; Where Do We Live; Dying City
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Description
A first volume of four plays from the Amercian playwright whose play Dying City was a critical and popular success at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006.
- Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown. The play premièred in March 2000.
- Where Do We Live, set in a post-September 11 world, asks to what extent New York's liberal multicultural society is under threat and how much we should care about the state in which our neighbours live.
- The Coming World moves from Shinn's usual Manhattan environment to the coast of New England, where Dora is persuaded, against her better judgement, to help her ex, Ed, in a desperate attempt to escape from spiralling debt. Produced at the Soho Theatre in 2001.
- Dying City shifts between 2004 and 2005 - the eve of one brother's departure for Iraq and the day that his twin brother visits his now widowed sister-in-law. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006 to great critical acclaim.
The books also features an introduction by the author.
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Product details

Published | 01 May 2007 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9780713683271 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Contemporary Dramatists |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'Christopher Shinn's clver, intricately calculated and quietly moving new play'
Daily Telegraph of 'Dying City'