Drawing from his own, specific experience, Margulies has indeed created what he calls “a window to the world” at large. The bits and pieces and detritus of our culture have been used to construct a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States. July 7, 1994 ranks as an important work by a gifted and growing American playwright.'—Chicago Tribune This new anthology by Donald Margulies collects his best short plays and monologues written over the past 24 years. Taken as a whole, the work is an extraordinary representation of a particularly American reality of the twentieth century. His language is exquisite and deceptive in its simplicity, wherein the larger questions of our daily existence emerge and are clarified. The volume contains three major one-act plays including July 7, 1994, the hit of the 1995 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; Pitching to the Stars, a darkly comic look at the writers lot in Hollywood; and Luna Park, an elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience, based on a short story by Delmore Schwartz. The volume also includes fifteen other short plays and monologues.Donald Margulies is the author of numerous plays, including Dinner with Friends and Collected Stories, both being filmed for television by HBO and PBS. Mr. Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University. Also available by Donald Margulies Dinner with FriendsPB $11.95 1-55936-194-8 • USA Collected StoriesPB $11.95 1-55936-152-2 • USA Sight Unseen and Other PlaysPB $16.95 1-55936-103-4 • USA

Luna Park : short plays and one acts

Margulies, Donald

New York: Theatre Communications Group

Nick Hern

1st ed., New York, New York State, 2002

United States, United States of America

New York, 2001

London, 2003

1, PT, 2001

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<p>Drawing from his own, specific experience, Margulies has indeed created what he calls “a window to the world” at large. The bits and pieces and detritus of our culture have been used to construct a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States. <i>July 7, 1994</i> ranks as an important work by a gifted and growing American playwright."—<i>Chicago Tribune</i></p>
<p>This new anthology by Donald Margulies collects his best short plays and monologues written over the past 24 years. Taken as a whole, the work is an extraordinary representation of a particularly American reality of the twentieth century. His language is exquisite and deceptive in its simplicity, wherein the larger questions of our daily existence emerge and are clarified. The volume contains three major one-act plays including <i>July 7, 1994</i>, the hit of the 1995 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; <i>Pitching to the Stars</i>, a darkly comic look at the writers lot in Hollywood; and <i>Luna Park</i>, an elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience, based on a short story by Delmore Schwartz. The volume also includes fifteen other short plays and monologues.</p>
<p><b>Donald Margulies</b> is the author of numerous plays, including <i>Dinner with Friends</i> and <i>Collected Stories</i>, both being filmed for television by HBO and PBS. Mr. Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.</p>
<p>Also available by Donald Margulies</p>
<p><i>Dinner with Friends</i></p>
<p>• USA</p>
<p><i>Collected Stories</i></p>
<p>• USA</p>
<p><i>Sight Unseen and Other Plays</i></p>
<p>• USA</p>

Award-winning playwright Donald Margulies is literate and intellectually stimulating ( New York ) and a playwright of the most unusual imaginative power ( New York Post ). Luna Short Plays and Monologues collects Marguliess best short plays and monologues spanning three decades. Taken as a whole, the work is an extraordinary representation of a particularly American reality of the twentieth century. His language is exquisite and deceptive in its simplicity, wherein the larger questions of our daily existence emerge and are clarified.
Includes July 7, 1994 , hailed at its premiere by Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune as a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States; Pitching to the Star , a darkly comic look at the writers lot in Hollywood; Luna Park , an elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience, inspired by a short story by Delmore Schwartz; and many more short works.
Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends . The play received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world. In addition to his adaptation of God of Vengeance , his many plays include Collected Stories , The Country House, Sight Unseen , The Model Apartment , The Loman Family Picnic , Whats Wrong with This Picture? and Time Stands Still . Mr. Margulies currently lives with his wife and their son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.

241 p. ; 22 cm

2023-06-28