
Corsicana / Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Will Arbery
(Author)Description
A double-volume of plays by acclaimed playwright Will Arbery that explore communities of outsiders who strive to help one another persevere in the face of despair.
In this two-play volume, acclaimed playwright Will Arbery explores the dynamics within tight-knit communities of outsiders working together to persevere against despair, whether intimate or cosmic. From wildly different angles, Corsicana and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing both examine the shape-shifting specters of grief, the pull of desire and dreams, and the universal human need for receiving and giving care.
Product Details
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Publish Date | May 28, 2024 |
Pages | 240 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781636701868 |
Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
Corsicana
"Watching Corsicana, I felt it was about who gets to make art, and for whom. Reading it, I felt it was about how becoming 'grown' is, for anyone, a lifelong process of failing upward. Thinking back on it, I feel it was about the way the world tucks beauty inside envelopes of sorrow, and vice versa . . . Without ignoring the bone-deep sadness of characters confused and stymied by loss, it lets us watch them climb their way out of it--heading toward joy and sharing some in the process." --Jesse Green, New York Times
"The four characters of Arbery's Corsicana are all figuring things out: how to mature, how to move on, how to love, how to express. And they're all taking care of each other in little ways . . . Will Arbery is quickly establishing himself as the poet of Texas loneliness. He is one of the most excit-ing playwrights working in the American theater, stretching the form to new shapes and expanding his voice with each successive play." --Lane Williamson, Exeunt
Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
"In a great piece of art, you'll have one moment where the truth will punch through. But in a pro-foundly generous piece of art, like Evanston--a play that is theoretical, painful, deep, and hysteri-cally funny--those moments of truth keep punch-ing through and through and through." --Chloe Cooper Jones, Bomb Magazine
"Arbery is the playwright of the moment. His proj-ect as a playwright is to yank away that 'dishon-est mask of pretended order, ' using the means he has at hand--the empathetic tools of performance and the electrifying effects of wild unreality." --Helen Shaw, New Yorker
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