An adept storyteller with a palpable affection for the traditions of the stage and a taste for surreal comedy, Margulies "manages to transform what might have been kitchen-sink drama into theatre that is unsettling, imaginative and quite hilarious."--(Howard Kissel, New York Daily News)
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Margulies's plays explore individuals' needs to be part of a group, usually a family, a religion, or both. Sometimes these are bitingly funny, as in the parodical Loman Family Picnic, about a young man who escapes his unhappy family life by imagining a musical of Death of a Salesman. Sometimes the plays are surreal, as in the Twilight Zonish What's Wrong With This Picture? about a dead wife and mother who is resurrected by her family's intense need--and then must convince them to let her rest in peace. The best in this collection is the title play. An artist finds himself in a crisis of identity when a German TV interviewer starts probing him about the supposed "Jewish" elements in his work. This volume, which also includes Found a Peanut and The Model Apartment, covers the upward curve of Margulies's career from the journeyman stage through off-Broadway successes to his first Broadway play.
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Donald Margulies's other plays include "Collected Stories", "The Loman Family Picnic", "Sight Unseen" and "Dinner with Friends", for which he was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Donald Margulies is one of the best playwrights currently at work in the American theater. His view of, particularly, middle class family life is elevated above the ordinary by Margulies' ability to observe his characters' struggles with the sharpest of eyes, while making his audience see and sympathize with the different points of view. His plays exploring the life of the artist also resonate. Margulies' earlier plays play with surrealism and comedy, while in the more recent plays he has used his knack for shuffling time and place to illuminate what appear to be ordinary lives. The Model Apartment is a remarkable play that dares to explore the fallout of the Holocaust through a lens of comedy, with powerful results. I look forward to a next volume of collected works of this extraordinary playwright.
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The collection was in good shape and arrived within the expected shipping time. Met my expectations.
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When I see one of Donald Margulies's plays, I always end up thinking about my cousin Abe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Little Earl, New York, Donald Margulies, Jonathan Waxman, Miss Schoenberg, Aunt Marsha, New Mexico, Scene One, Anna Frank, Beverley Road, Anne Frank, Bon Bons, Coney Island, Scene Five, The Loman Family Picnic, Bumble Bee, Holiday Inn, Mayor Lindsay, What's Wrong With This Picture, Arthur Miller, Born Free, Howard Johnson, Jeffrey Smolowitz, Joe Papp, Radio City New!
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When I see one of Donald Margulies's plays, I always end up thinking about my cousin Abe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weeded area, shiva call, creative contributors, model apartment, following cast Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Earl, New York, Donald Margulies, Jonathan Waxman, Miss Schoenberg, Aunt Marsha, New Mexico, Scene One, Anna Frank, Beverley Road, Anne Frank, Bon Bons, Coney Island, Scene Five, The Loman Family Picnic, Bumble Bee, Holiday Inn, Mayor Lindsay, What's Wrong With This Picture, Arthur Miller, Born Free, Howard Johnson, Jeffrey Smolowitz, Joe Papp, Radio City New!
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- The Loman Family Picnic - Acting Edition by Donald Margulies in Front Matter, page 3, and page 4
- Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories / Letting Go (Library of America) by Philip Roth on page 340
- We See (Read with Dick and Jane (Abdo)) by Scott Foresman & Company on page 11
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo on page 225
- The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) by William Faulkner on page 349
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- Practical Playwriting by David Copelin in Back Matter
- The Playwright's Muse (Studies in Modern Drama) by Joan Herrington in Back Matter
- The Playwright's Muse (Studies in Modern Drama) by Joan Herrington in Back Matter
- Luna Park: Short Plays and Monologues by Donald Margulies in Front Matter
- Contemporary American Monologues for Women by Todd London in Back Matter
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