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Published by Theatre Communications Group (edition ), 2014
ISBN 10: 1559364580ISBN 13: 9781559364584
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Published by Samuel French, Inc., 2014
ISBN 10: 0573702039ISBN 13: 9780573702037
Seller: Goodwill Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. The cover is clean but may show some signs of wear. Some pages may have folding.
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Published by Nick Hern Books, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1848425627ISBN 13: 9781848425620
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants - 'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times.In a run-down movie theatre in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimetre film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lacklustre, second-run movies on screen.With keen insight and a finely tuned ear for comedy, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.The Flick arrived at the National Theatre, London, in 2016, direct from New York, where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It went on to win Best New Play at the 2016 Critics' Circle Awards.'Annie Baker's play is not just good. It is not just new. It's a new sort of good' Observer'Astonishing. The beauty of Baker's play lies in its portrait of three quietly desperate people. This is like no other play in London. It moves at its own unhurried pace and magically exposes the souls of lonely people in danger of being left behind in our new, digitised age' Guardian'A portrait of a generation struggling through life without moorings, that also beautifully and often hilariously observes the strange, fragile nature of work friendships, enforced intimacy with virtual strangers' Time Out'An understated epic of dreams, disappointment and tenacity by America's greatest living dramatist' The Stage'What makes The Flick so original and captivating is the way form really does match content [conjures] a stillness that is almost like a painting, rewarding patience, forcing you to pay attention. It's a mighty achievement' WhatsOnStage'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times'The Flick offers that beautiful, exquisitely alive feeling you get during the best moments of theatre that life is too wonderful to be believed' New YorkerBest New Play, Critics' Circle AwardsPulitzer Prize for DramaSusan Smith Blackburn Prize Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants - 'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Theatre Communications Group, 2012
ISBN 10: 1559363894ISBN 13: 9781559363891
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today. There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation." --Charles Isherwood, New York Times"Baker has a soft spot for the abandoned, the discarded, the hard luck case. her heartbreaking works of staggering focus have actually rescued realism from the aesthetic scrap heap" -- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York"Baker is a writer whose plays have a quiet, hypnotic charm, a grace and humor. She's able to take ordinary, low-key situations--a small-town acting class, guys wasting time in an alley behind a cafe--and fill them with gentle comedy, generosity of spirit and an eye (and ear) for the foibles that make us all so hopelessly human." --Village VoiceThe debut play collection of Annie Baker includes The Aliens: an exploration of friendship and music in the lives of three misfits behind a coffee shop; Circle Mirror Transformation: a meditation on life within the rhythms of an adult drama class; Nocturama: A dark comedy in which a grown son returns home to live with his mother and stepfather; and Body Awareness: a close look at a nontraditional family dealing with an unexpected guest.Annie Baker's other plays include The Flick and an adaptation of Uncle Vanya. She won an Obie Award for Best New American Play for The Aliens and Circle Mirror Transformation. She is a 2011 United States Artists Fellow and a resident playwright at the Signature Theatre.
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Published by Theatre Communications Group, 2014
ISBN 10: 1559364874ISBN 13: 9781559364874
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
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Published by Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S., New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1559365285ISBN 13: 9781559365284
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Annie Bakers John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light By not rushing thingsby letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfallBaker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be 'postmodern.' New YorkerJohn, like any great play, raises a lot of questionsnot just about the human experience, but also about the state of contemporary theater, it doesnt provide many answers; it is not the playwrights responsibility to do so. In John she co-opts the viewer for her own aesthetic use, heightening the tension onstage and deepening the quiet relationships between her characters. Through John, she displays an understanding that the audience is part of the theatrical experience, an inevitability as certain as a Chekhovian gun. SlateThe week after Thanksgiving. A bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching.The description by the playwright of the setting is simple, but Annie Bakers compelling new work is revolutionary in theme and structure and challenges the boundaries of what theatre can be. A kind of magical super-realism permeates throughout this quietly evolving tale, with both the actors and the audience fully vested together in a mesmerizing exploration of the frailty and loneliness of human experience. A haunting and quietly devastating new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Flick. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Theatre Communications Group, New York, 2014
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First Printing. A Very Fine copy in dark grey cloth, in a Very Fine black and green dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 177pp. The play won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Q17766.
Published by Theater Communications Group. First American paperback edition, 2014
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A three hander inside a rundown cinema. Printed wrappers. Fine. book.
112 pp. Paperback. New from publisher.
Published by Independently published, 2019
ISBN 10: 108102173XISBN 13: 9781081021733
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 47 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.11 inches. In Stock.
Published by Samuel French, Inc., 2015
ISBN 10: 0573701563ISBN 13: 9780573701566
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This intimate, immersive new adaptation of Chekhov's classic from critically-acclaimed playwright Annie Baker, author of Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, and The Flick, brings colloquial language to this internationaly beloved story of human relationships and yearning. Written with the 'goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way the play sounded to Russian ears during the play's first productions in the provinces in 1898,' Ms. Bake.
Published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, 2020
ISBN 10: 0881458791ISBN 13: 9780881458794
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Chances are that you have had a friend who fell in love with someone you felt was, to put it kindly, unsuitable. Yet the more you listened to your friend talk, the more you saw this object of adoration through her eyes. And maybe you came not only to understand the attraction but even almost to share it.Such is the experience of listening to Erica, the enraptured heroine of Nick Robideau's INANIMATE, the sly and very likable comedy.the 30-year-old Erica has for the first time found true romance, and-yes, yes, oh yes-she never knew it could be like this.She'd shout it from the rooftops if she could. But she fears society is not ready to accept this relationship. Erica, you see, is in love with a wonderful-wait for it-fast-food restaurant sign.A Dairy Queen sign, to be specific. Erica fondly calls it Dee, after the first letter of its illuminated name. Or rather, his name. Erica knows that 'his energy is male'.The category of loves that dare not speak their names, at least from American theater stages, keeps shrinking. In 2002, Edward Albee's THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA presented a married architect's affair with a barnyard animal as a means of exploring the limits of erotic tolerance. INANIMATE takes this investigation a step further, with a fractured lyricism all its own.The brave new world-or perhaps not so new, just previously unmentionable-that Mr Robideau has ventured into is clinically known as 'objectum sexuality', or objectophilia. As Erica eventually discovers, it is a condition that now has its own websites, online forums and support groups; it has even been the subject of documentaries, such as Strange Love: Married to the Eiffel Tower.Clinical, though, is definitely not the word for INANIMATE.this play unfolds as a sort of normcore comic variation on ROMEO AND JULIET, which insists we regard its central relationship as worthy of high flights of poetic fancy.Such a perspective could so easily lean toward smirky voyeurism or cloying cuteness. And in the opening scenes, I worried that a perverse preciousness might dominate.But INANIMATE wins us over by contextualizing its exotic subject in the bedrock of the familiar. Subjectively, most of us went through what Erica is experiencing when we were teenagers, terrified by the insistent promptings of our libidos. And as the play progresses, and Erica confesses her once secretlove, Mr Robideau drolly insinuates that all tales of coming to terms with sexuality are 'coming out' stories.The provincial New England that Erica inhabits is not unlike the dead-end environs of an Annie Baker play. As in Ms Baker's THE ALIENS and THE FLICK, the outsider characters of INANIMATE are trapped in a state of protracted adolescence, equally terrified of being stuck in or ever leaving their insular Massachusetts hometown.'Ben Brantley, The New York Times.
Published by THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, 2016
ISBN 10: 1559365293ISBN 13: 9781559365291
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnA haunting and quietly devastating new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Flick.
Published by Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S., New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1559365684ISBN 13: 9781559365680
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Drawing on the immediacy of overheard conversation, she has pioneered a style of theatre made to seem as untheatrical as possible, while using the tools of the stage to focus audience attention. . . . To watch Baker's work is to be drawn into a world that feels as unplotted as real life . . . but that breaks abruptly into surreal transcendence."-Nathan Heller, New Yorker "Ms. Baker, one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off-Broadway in the past decade, writes with tenderness and keen insight about the way people make messes of their lives-and the lives of people they care about." -Charles Isherwood, The New York Times The latest work by the "funny, empathetic genius" (New Yorker) Annie Baker, The Antipodes is the brilliant follow-up to her critically-acclaimed play John and Pulitzer Prize winner The Flick. Baker's uniquely shrewd writing style shines through in this much anticipated Off-Broadway hit, complete with her signature hyper-realistic depiction of humanity and how we cope with the surprises and pitfalls of life. Annie Baker's works include John, The Flick (Pulitzer Prize), The Aliens (Obie Award), Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award), Nocturama, and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Her work has been produced at more than a hundred theatres in the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries. Recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Steinberg Playwright Award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. She is a resident playwright at Signature Theatre in New York. The highly anticipated new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Flick. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Theatre Communications Group, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1559364874ISBN 13: 9781559364874
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 5.5 X 0.9 X 8.6 inches; 192 pages.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 135031997XISBN 13: 9781350319974
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur genius grant, Amy Muse analyzes Bakers plays and other work. These include The Flick, John, The Antipodes, the Shirley Vermont plays, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Muse illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes and issues by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing them.Through close discussions of Bakers work, this book immerses readers in her use of everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by a foreword from Bakers former professor, playwright Mac Wellman, as well as essays by four scholars, Thomas Butler, Jeanmarie Higgins, Katherine Weiss, and Harrison Schmidt, this is a companionable guide for students of American literature and theatre studies, which deepens their knowledge and appreciation of Bakers dramatic invention.Muse argues that Baker is finely attuned to the language of the everyday: imperfect, halting, marked with unexpressed desires, banalities, and silence. Called antitheatrical, these plays draw us back to the essence of theatre: space, time, and story, sitting with others in real time, witnessing the dramatic in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Bakers revolution for the stage has been to slow it down and bring us all into the mystery and pleasure of attention. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.