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All in the Timing

By David Ives

All in the Timing

By David Ives

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The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud." At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue," "Seven Menus," "Mere Mortals," "English Made Simple," "A Singular Kinda Guy," "Speed-the-Play," "Ancient History," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
1994-11-08
Publication Date:
1994-11-08
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
067975928X
ISBN13:
9780679759287
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
347 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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