Books by Annie Baker
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review 1: While I appreciate the surreal-ness of taking actor exercises and putting them on stage, there is too much of a familiarness in this structure. These are people but we know these people, too much so. we don't know these people from real life but from stage. Baker excels at lettin...
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review 1: Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Flick is a dialog driven play that is dotted by glimpses into the mundane and hard realities of life as experienced by three young ushers who work and help operate The Flick movie theater in any town Massachusetts, a below par movi...
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review 1: Cheston Knapp (Managing Editor, Tin House Magazine): While standing behind our booth at AWP in Seattle, I heard a lot of good-sounding pitches for fictional novels, but I also heard a lot about The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison, which I picked up and read in almost one sitting...