Where Do We Live and Other Plays
"Chris Shinn explores politics and ethics without moralizing and finds justice and beauty in intimate life, keenly observed and rendered scrupulously, unapologetically, fearlessly. These plays are important and utterly original. I admire his work enormously."
— Tony Kushner
Contains the following plays:
Four
"Nothing is simple emotionally. The play keeps delivering small shocks and aches that end in a standoff, or maybe in that pause between despair, resignation and a twinge of hope. Haunting."
— Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
Other People
"Shinn comes across as a young Woody Allen for the new millennium, brilliantly and often hilariously nailing the insecurity, the unhappiness and the chronic self-absorbtion of struggling artists in New York's East Village. The play is sharp, intelligent and touching."
— Charles Spencer, London's Daily Telegraph
What Didn't Happen
"What Didn't Happen is about the distance between people, and the ways in which even friends, spouses and lovers are ultimately unknowable to one another...a playwright to cherish. "
— Ben Brantley, The New York Times
The Coming World
"A delicate duologue...Shinn weaves his words into a structure of shifting feelings and perspectives. Its sense of hope and desolation shifts between solid sands and liquid seas...An eerily intense poetic trance. "
—Patrick Marimon , London's Evening Standard
Where Do We Live
"A startlingly accurate theatrical appraisal of the way we live now. "
—Charles McNulty, Village Voice |
