The Collected Plays of Paul Rudnick
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (882 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061780200 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the stage in the United States today.” Now, this collection of his plays will remind readers far and wide of the great influence that Paul Rudnick’s comic genius has had on the world of American theater.Here are I Hate Hamlet, the play that marked Rudnick’s Broadway debut; Jeffrey, the long-running off-Broadway smash about gay life during the AIDS crisis of the early ’90s; as well as five other onstage gems enlivened by Rudnick&r
With echoes of Neil Simon, Thornton Wilder, and Noel Coward, Rudnick plays like I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey, and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told are outstanding fixtures of America’s comedic canon. “Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.” —David Sedaris, author of Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Squirrel Seeks ChipmunkThis definitive collection of Paul Rudnick’s plays presents the pinnacle of theatrical hilarity from one of America’s great humorists. . Popular for his wickedly funny novels, including I’ll Take It and Social Disease, comic screenplays like In & Out and Addams Family Values, and the Augusten Burroughs-like memoir I Shudder, Rudnick remains best known for his cerebral but side-splitting theatrical writing
Born in Piscataway, New Jersey, he now lives in New York City.. Playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Paul Rudnick's celebrated works include the plays I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey, and the screenplays In & Out and Addams Family Values. He also writes regularly for The New Yorker
Worth it for JEFFREY and VALHALLA--skip the rest Worth buying for JEFFREY and VALHALLA, two very good plays and they're about something more than Rudnick's abundant wit. The others are wafer thin plots that just join one jokey gay bit to the next. The jokes are often good but, reading this whole collection, you're left with the bad taste of cleverness for its own sake. It's a shame Rudnick never challenged himself and just settled for writing about gay men as teenage girls. Like most of these plays, teenage girls can be initially funny and charming but you soon long for adult company.. reading vs seeing Sethji His wit and alacrity with language prevail in these written versions of his plays. I wanted to see them because so many great lines, phrases and jokes go by at lightening speed when i've seen (only some of them) performed. I have to say, an actor's delivery brings it so much more to life, but still i've enjoyed revisiting his plots and writing.. Highly recommended for actors who need screenplay monologue material heidi schlossberg My son LOVES the plays in this book. He uses them to look for monologues as he's an actor.