{"product_id":"9780573698705","title":"Flyovers","description":"Dramatic Comedy \/ 2m, 2f \u003cp\u003eWinner of Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Script\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlyovers is a 90-minute play about a film critic who finds himself caught up in a Culture Clash of economics, sex and long-submerged resentment when he returns to the small Ohio town where he grew up. Trying to make peace with his past, he reconnects with some former classmates, a bully and a girl he had a crush on. The encounters are unsettling for all three; nothing turns out as expected. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1998 and the economic troubles that will later engulf the rest of the country are offering a preview of coming attractions in Ohio. The plant that has been the economic heart of a downstate town is closed by a decision from Wall Street. Oliver, a movie critic on a TV show, returns for a high school reunion unaware that his current identifi cation as a Jewish New Yorker can't help but trigger a reaction. An invitation from Ted, the bully who used to plague him, and the addition of Ted's unstable wife Lianne and the provocative Iris bring things to a boil in a play that is by turns funny and wrenching. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it opened at the Tony® Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre - in a production starring Chicago acting legends Amy Morton and William Petersen under the direction of Dennis Zacek - Flyovers broke house records and took home the \"Jeff\" Award for new script. It won new admirers in New York in a limited-run production starring Richard Kind and Michele Pawk under the direction of Sandy Shinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Startling explosions and bursts of heart breaking insight. Beautifully mixes laughs and lessons. While funny, it's also a faithful tone poem on its characters, who end up dissected, desperate, and, in Sweet's strange, deftly managed plot twists, strained in a dreary, Flannery O'Connor like neverland of an ending.\" -Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060555628784,"sku":"9780573698705","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780573698705_p0.jpg?v=1763720237","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573698705","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}