Plays by Sherry Kramer [Paperback]

Sherry Kramer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2000

This collection contains three full-length plays: 

THE WALL OF WATER

originally produced by Yale Repertory Theatre

Awarded the LA-Women-in Theatre New Play Award

DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH 

originally produced by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, D.C.

Awarded the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award

THINGS THAT BREAK

originally produced by the Theatre of the First Amendment, D.C.

Nominated: Helen Hayes New Play Award

Editorial Reviews

Review

on DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH: ...Sherry Kramer's inventively structured, colorfully written and frequently lyrical play...The narrative fluidly shifts back and forth between the present and the span of a few days two years earlier, when Jean and Marilyn met and Jean received the fateful phone call from home informing her of David's death. ...this thoughtful meditation on loss. --Douglas J Keating, The Philadelphia Enquirer

Sherry Kramer's THINGS THAT BREAK is a terribly difficult, painfully beautiful play in which everything is broken.
The storytelling is jagged, taking surreal twists as it shifts back and forth between the worried wife of a man having heart surgery and her grown son and daughter.... This is a wildly imaginative piece of work. ...listening to Miss Kramer's kaleidoscopic language...is like being under some hallucinogenic anesthetic. --Nelson Pressley, The Washington Times

THE WALL OF WATER quickly bursts through the dam of conventional theater for two hours of the kind of inspired and breathtaking chaos so rare on America's stages that we may have forgotten the word for it. The word is farce.... Even though Sherry Kramer's play is gleefully packed with all those most cherished elements of classic farce mistaken identity, miscommunicated messages, misunderstood orders the exasperations which fuel the play's wacky fires from start to finish are recognizably and sometimes grimly contemporary.... What distinguishes Kramer's farce from even her most esteemed European counterparts is four strong female roles at the heart of this eloquent craziness. --Margaret Spillane, New Haven Independent

Product Details

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Broadway Play Pub; 1st edition (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881451843
• ISBN-13: 978-0881451849
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #867,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Plays by Sherry Kramer (Paperback)

It's easy to be drawn to these plays. If you are like me, and thus morbidly (pun intended) curious about death, these beautifully intense plays are a must-read. They are at once heartbreaking, uplifting, painful, and soothing. Kramer molds her characters' dialogue, and thus your heart, like play-doh, and it is a uniquely surreal experience that doesn't let go.