The Designated Mourner by Shawn, Wallace
The Designated Mourner by Shawn, Wallace

The Designated Mourner

"The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary." -Time"Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing...
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Author: Wallace Shawn
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The Designated Mourner by Shawn, Wallace

The Designated Mourner

$33.85
The Designated Mourner by Shawn, Wallace

The Designated Mourner

$33.85
Author: Wallace Shawn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary." -Time

"Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing." -Los Angeles Times

"In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of intellectual snobs everywhere." -The New York Times

Writer and performer Wallace Shawn's landmark 1996 play features three characters--a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband--suspected of subversion in a world where culture has come under the control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production directed by David Hare, who also directed the film version, starring Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson. The play's subsequent New York premiere was staged in a long-abandoned men's club in lower Manhattan, directed by Shawn's longtime collaborator Andr Gregory.

Wallace Shawn is the author of Our Late Night (OBIE Award for Best Play), Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, and the screenplay for My Dinner with Andr . His most recent play, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, premiered last year in London.



Author: Wallace Shawn
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 12/21/2010
Pages: 65
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781559363624

About the Author
Wallace Shawn is the author of Our Late Night (OBIE Award Best Play) Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Designated Mourner, The Fever, among other plays, and the screenplay for My Dinner with André. He has translated and adapted The Threepenny Opera, The Master Builder and The Mandrake.
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