Dying City

Name: Dying City
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ISBN: 9781559363297

ISBN-10: 1559363290

ISBN-13: 9781559363297

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christopher Shinn

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"The finest new American play I've seen in a long while . . . Dying City is a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller called the politics of the soul. It's about public conscience and private grief, and real and symbolic catastrophes."-The New York Observer "Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the . . . sophisticated welding of form and content that is Dying City."-The New York Times In Christopher Shinn's new play Dying City, a young therapist, Kelly, whose husband Craig was killed while on military duty in Iraq, is confronted a year later by his identical twin Peter, who…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Christopher Shinn (b. 1975) is an American playwright from New York. He has had a number of play produced in the UK, including Four (Royal Court Theatre, 1998); Other People (Royal Court Theatre, 2000); Where Do We Live (Royal Court Theatre, 2002); The Coming World (Soho Theatre, 2001), and Dying City (Royal Court Theatre, 2006). In 2008 he was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently he took part in the Bush Theatre's staging of the Bible, Sixty Six Books.