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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Publication date
April 1, 2003
Pages
197
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780571211234
ISBN-10
0571211232
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.42 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$16.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
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Two âhaunting and luminousâ (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times) plays from the author of Take Me Out and Three Days of Rain
In The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg takes on the story of the Collyer brothers, legendary New York eccentrics who, following their deaths in 1947, were found to have collected more than 136 tons of trash within their grand but crumbling Harlem manse. As depicted by Richard Greenberg, Langley and Homer Collyer are consumed by their obsessionsâHomer reveling in telling tall tales, Langley captured by the âdazzleâ of images contained within objectsâin this âbeautiful, disturbing, shockingly funny and profoundly humane play by a masterful dramatistâ (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).
Everett Beekin explores the tensions between the safety of family and the yearning for a larger life through the relationships of two sets of Jewish sisters. Set in the 1940s, Act One opens with Anna and Sophie dining in their motherâs Lower East Side tenement, bickering over the presence of their sister Miriâs Gentile suitor, Jimmy. In Act Two, fifty years later, Annaâs daughters Nell and Celia meet on a California beach before the wedding of Nellâs daughter Laurel. Linking the generations is the name Everett BeekinâJimmyâs business partner and, later, Laurelâs prospective bridegroom Everett Beekin VIII. As the play unfolds, Everett Beekin becomes âa haunted, restless meditation on American rootlessnessâ (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).
In The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg takes on the story of the Collyer brothers, legendary New York eccentrics who, following their deaths in 1947, were found to have collected more than 136 tons of trash within their grand but crumbling Harlem manse. As depicted by Richard Greenberg, Langley and Homer Collyer are consumed by their obsessionsâHomer reveling in telling tall tales, Langley captured by the âdazzleâ of images contained within objectsâin this âbeautiful, disturbing, shockingly funny and profoundly humane play by a masterful dramatistâ (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).
Everett Beekin explores the tensions between the safety of family and the yearning for a larger life through the relationships of two sets of Jewish sisters. Set in the 1940s, Act One opens with Anna and Sophie dining in their motherâs Lower East Side tenement, bickering over the presence of their sister Miriâs Gentile suitor, Jimmy. In Act Two, fifty years later, Annaâs daughters Nell and Celia meet on a California beach before the wedding of Nellâs daughter Laurel. Linking the generations is the name Everett BeekinâJimmyâs business partner and, later, Laurelâs prospective bridegroom Everett Beekin VIII. As the play unfolds, Everett Beekin becomes âa haunted, restless meditation on American rootlessnessâ (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).
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9780571211234 | details & prices | 197 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.42 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Two âhaunting and luminousâ (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times) plays from the author of Take Me Out and Three Days of RainIn The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg takes on the story of the Collyer brothers, legendary New York eccentrics who, following their deaths in 1947, were found to have collected more than 136 tons of trash within their grand but crumbling Harlem manse.
About: Two âhaunting and luminousâ (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times) plays from the author of Take Me Out and Three Days of RainIn The Dazzle, Richard Greenberg takes on the story of the Collyer brothers, legendary New York eccentrics who, following their deaths in 1947, were found to have collected more than 136 tons of trash within their grand but crumbling Harlem manse.
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