Description
Book SynopsisChristopher Shinn is an American playwright from New York. His plays include
Now or Later (shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play),
Dying City (Pulitzer Prize finalist),
Where Do We Live (winner of an Obie in Playwriting),
An Opening In Time, Teddy Ferrara,
Picked,
Four,
What Didn't Happen,
On the Mountain,
Other People, and
The Coming World. His adaptation of
Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway (American Airlines Theatre), and he has written short plays for Naked Angels (Democracy Project), the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, the Bush Theatre (
Sixty-Six Books), and Headlong (
Decade). His work has been premiered by Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre, South Coast Rep, the Goodman, the Royal Court, and the Soho Theatre, and later produced around the world. Christopher Shinn's awards include a Guggenhei
Trade ReviewNow Or Later is as potent as David Mamet’s
Oleanna in its exposure of how liberal creeds can – one way or another – be murkily tied in with intolerance * Independent on "Now Or Later" *
The play keeps delivering small shocks and aches that end in a standoff, or maybe in that pause between despair, resignation, and a twinge of hope. Haunting. * New York Times on "Four" *
Surprising nuance and sudden surges of emotion. The play offers several outstanding monologues, some tender, some searing, and one unforgettable * New Yorker on "On the Mountain" *
Better than any play I’ve seen at finding the natural existential anxiety in the frustration and powerlessness of being a movie actor. Offers ample evidence of this dramatist’s singular gift for presenting human murkiness with precisely shaded clarity. Impeccably observed. * New York Times on "Picked" *
Shinn opens a window into lives that we rarely see on stage * Broadway World *
A playwright who writes with unshowy depth and unforced menace on a challenging subject * New York Magazine *
Shinn territory is a land of bruised souls sharing awkward silences, their subtext and inchoate impulses placed carefully between them. A dramatist who writes from an intensely interior zone * Time Out New York *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Now or Later Four Picked On The Mountain
