{"product_id":"9780881456509","title":"Now You See Me","description":"Claire has a significant relationship with her television: she talks, and it answers her. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she auditions to participate in a reality TV show so she can fight her \"Final Battle\" in front of millions of viewers.\u003cp\u003e\"A dark comedy with disturbing insights ... funny and provocative.\" -The News \u0026amp; Observer (Raleigh, NC)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The technology of vanity is developing so quickly that NOW YOU SEE ME, the new play by Neal Bell, is almost a period piece already. The play imagines what would happen if a terminal cancer patient was the star of a reality T V show that would chronicle her own decay and death ... The play ... [is] crammed with intriguing ideas, dramatic and otherwise ... such as the suggestion that watching people die is a kind of pornography. Among the liveliest inventions is Bell's plainly deliberate use of stock television-show dialogue for his characters, echoed here and there by actual T V programs seen in fragments on one of two onstage screens. NOW YOU SEE ME comes on like a sitcom - it very nearly is a sitcom, a critique of the thing by nearly being it-and implicitly asks us whether reality shows aren't actually sitcoms themselves, a cheapening of everyone involved, including the viewer.\" -Adam Sobsey, Indy Week\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032625135856,"sku":"9780881456509","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780881456509_p0.jpg?v=1763847463","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881456509","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}