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A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx... Prodigal Son is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath jokes and banter. -- Davide Cote, Time Out New York Shanley chooses characters stretched to the breaking point between rage and love... His are characters of obsessive passions who match those passions with hyper-melodic language. --BOMB magazine When a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx arrives at a private school in New Hampshire, two faculty members wrestle with how to help him adjust to his new environment. The boy is violent, brilliant, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. As with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Doubt, John Patrick Shanley has drawn on his personal experiences to create an explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction. John Patrick Shanley is the author of Doubt, a parable (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play), Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination for Best Play), Defiance, Storefront Church, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Dirty Story, among many other plays. He wrote the teleplay for Live from Baghdad (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing of a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special) and the screenplays for Congo, Alive, Five Corners, Joe Versus the Volcano, Doubt, a parable (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Moonstruck (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).Product Identifiers
PublisherTheatre Communications Group INC International Concepts.,U.S.
ISBN-139781559365260
eBay Product ID (ePID)221114550
Product Key Features
Book TitleProdigal Son (Tcg Edition)
AuthorJohn Patrick Shanley
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPlays
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height215mm
Item Width136mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Patrick Shanley
Topic AreaChildren & Family, Social Psychology
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States