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Book SynopsisAnna Ziegler's plays include
Photograph 51, The Last Match (The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA and City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA),
Boy (Keen Company/Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City),
A Delicate Ship (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park),
Another Way Home (Washington DC at Theater J; previously produced at The Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA). She has been commissioned by The Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage Company and New Georges.
Trade ReviewNew York Times Critic’s Pick! [A Delicate Ship is] a lovely drama by the newly (and justly) hot playwright, Anna Ziegler...[Her] dialogue bristles with smart, eloquent talk...Ms. Ziegler’s quietly lyrical language has a luminous beauty, and her talent for creating characters whose complicated depths are just visible on their surfaces is still more remarkable. -- Charles Isherwood * The New York Times *
A deft, luminous play.
The Last Match swells with intensity and poetic undertones as it courses through 90 minutes with increasing velocity, asking big questions about the human condition. * Stage and Cinema *
Anna Ziegler’s captivating new play Boy…is already a chief contender for the most insightful, gut-wrenching, and beautiful play of 2016…Expect it to be a long while before there’s another play more rewarding, more moving, and more magical than Boy. * Talkin’ Broadway *
Were Photograph 51 simply to assert that Franklin was robbed of the prestige that was rightly hers – Watson and Crick were credited as codiscoverers [of the double helix of DNA], and she died in 1958, four years before the pair (and Wilkins too) received the Nobel Prize – it would serve a valid but rather worthy purpose. It’s much more fascinating than that, though. It deals with timely feminist issues but also the key fundamentals of how we relate to each other, who we are, our tragic flaws...A triumph. * The Telegraph *
