{"product_id":"9780881451290","title":"Plays By Edwin Sanchez","description":"This collection includes three full-length plays: CLEAN, FLOORSHOW: DOÑA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG, and TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS. CLEAN: What would happen if you found that impossible love was indeed possible? And what would happen if two of these couples were a drag queen and a woman, and a priest and a boy? FLOORSHOW: DOÑA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG: Reality and fantasy collide as a son, just out of a mental institution, and his mother, a former hooker, now a fortune teller, battle for the truth regarding the death of a daughter who may never have existed. TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS: When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets.\u003cp\u003eCLEAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The forms of love that dare not speak their names are pretty scarce in this age of the tabloid talk shows. But that hasn't stopped Edwin Sanchez, a new playwright of tremendous emotional conviction ... How do you feel, for example, about a thirty year-old Roman Catholic priest in love with a ten-year-old boy? The relationship - which, it should probably be noted right away, is never consummated - is at the center of CLEAN ... Mr Sanchez is a wide-eyed, unregenerate romantic who uses what he describes as 'impossible' relationships to consider and celebrate the arbitrariness of love. In a sense, the play is like a contemporary MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in which the passion-drunk characters, rather than being sorted into socially acceptable pairs, learn to live in a world ruled by a blind Cupid. It is a theme Mr Sanchez explored in TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, an unsettling drama about a doomed gay triangle ... He is, in other words, a playwright to watch closely.\" -Ben Brantley, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLOORSHOW: DOÑA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... ambitious. In its 90 minutes [FLOORSHOW] attempts to deal with a whole family's worth of problems - and not just any family but a broken family headed by a prostitute, Doña Sol, who is forced to practice her trade at home within earshot of her young, impressionable children, one of whom has been severely handicapped since birth.\" -Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work ... he convinces with the honesty of his writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters. The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray shades of his characters ...\" -Greg Evans, Variety\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49859416850672,"sku":"9780881451290","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881451290","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}