The Day Room
Seiten
2018
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-37429-3 (ISBN)
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-37429-3 (ISBN)
From one of America’s foremost living writers comes a brilliant and disturbing comedy that mixes laughter and terror as it uncovers the boundaries of sanity in all of us.
The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold – in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour – our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric patients playing doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein?
Described by the Boston Globe on its first performance as `an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny’, The Day Room displays Don DeLillo’s extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights.
The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold – in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour – our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric patients playing doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein?
Described by the Boston Globe on its first performance as `an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny’, The Day Room displays Don DeLillo’s extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights.
Don DeLillo is the author of award-winning novels and several plays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Jerusalem Prize, along with many other awards and honours. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the recipient of the Academy's William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld. His other plays include Love-Lies-Bleeding, Valparaiso and The Word For Snow.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.11.2018 |
---|---|
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 128 x 197 mm |
Gewicht | 99 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
ISBN-10 | 0-330-37429-X / 033037429X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-330-37429-3 / 9780330374293 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |