{"product_id":"9780881456172","title":"Dark Ride","description":"A brilliantly conceived and highly theatrical experience in absurdist drama, in which the audience is taken on a wild and funny metaphysical journey into the fertile imaginations of the diverse characters whose bizarre stories are deftly interwoven into the fabric of the play. DARK RIDE is comprised of a series of vignettes involving characters who, at first, appear to bear no relation to each other. A mysterious figure gives a scholar an ancient manuscript to translate; a thief steals an enormous jewel; a woman assures us that life is all coincidence; a dream-like waitress serves her customers all manner of thoughts and suggestions but no food. The images are bizarrely funny and provocative and, in time, coalesce into a pattern of driving concerns and obsessions that come into focus when the various characters finally meet at an oculists convention in Mexico City. Phantasmagoric, the play takes us on a journey that, in the final essence, transcends the physical world to explore the inner recesses of the mind.\u003cp\u003e\"The trip itself, like a spooky show in a carnival tunnel, is full of bright, surprising images, scary and funny.\" -The Village Voice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... funny, rich, erudite, playful, assured.\" -Soho News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few playwrights have Jenkin's skill at theatrical sleight-of-hand ... it supplies an ingenuity which cannot fail to stimulate both the theatre and the theatregoer.\" -The New York Daily News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50014835212528,"sku":"9780881456172","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780881456172_p0.jpg?v=1784242258","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881456172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}