Howard Katz is a new play by Patrick Marber, who has been called "the greatest British playwright to have emerged in the 1990s." (The Financial Times) Following on the success of his play Closer, Patrick Marber's Howard Katz has been hailed as "a gripping piece of work" (Sunday Telegraph). This haunting play is centered on its title character, a hard-as-nails talent agent now down on his luck. Marber traces the story of the mighty Katz through almost dream- like flashbacks, capturing a man in freefall, while he determinedly clings to life. Marber's tale is a universal one about the search for faith and the power of love to touch even the most hardened soul. "Howard Katz is one of the most fascinating, relevant, and thoughtful plays to hit London in recent years." -- Time "A dream-play, a nightmare-play, a sad-funny life and death play. A must." -- Sunday Times (London)
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Marber's skill in the mechanics of writing drama is the some of the most solid I've come across. The arc of the play isn't very broad, but the dissolution of the main character, Howard Katz, is compelling and disturbing. Although Marber does descend into philosophical/spiritual soliloquies, something I am not terribly fond of in drama, and Katz's redemption is unconvincing, the play as a whole is quite engaging. At a minimum, this play is a stark lesson on not being an a--hole.
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- Mansfield Park (Signet Classics) by Jane Austen on page 36
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- Mansfield Park (Classic Library) by Jame Austen on page 36
- After Miss Julie (Modern Plays) by Patrick Marber in Front Matter
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen on page 36
- Upstaged: Making Theatre in a Media Age by Anne Nicholson Weber on page 85
- The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing by Ronald Carter on page 33
- A Political Theory Primer by Peter C. Ordeshook on page 67
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