Drinking in America [Paperback]

Eric Bogosian (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 55 pages
• Publisher: S. French, Inc (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0573640483
• ISBN-13: 978-0573640483
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Drinking in America, October 11, 2006

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This review is from: Drinking in America (Paperback)

"Drinking in America" is a sequence of fourteen dramatic segments (thirteen monologues), which together create a pastiche; a meditation on a theme. The title of the piece is a "red herring," for the true theme is not so much inebriation in the normal sense of the word, rather it is the inebriation and excitement of fantasy and power.

The piece is meant to be performed solo and without special effects, costumes or complex mime. I want the audience to indulge their imaginations as one character after the next is presented nakedly to them. The performance should have a visceral quality so that as much as the audience is "carried away" by a segment, it is at the same time very aware of the performers exertion.
--- excerpt from book's Notes For Performing