{"product_id":"9781559367516","title":"Luna Park: Short Plays and Monologues","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing from his own, specific experience, Margulies has indeed created what he calls “a window to the world” at large. The bits and pieces and detritus of our culture have been used to construct a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States. \u003ci\u003eJuly 7, 1994\u003c\/i\u003e ranks as an important work by a gifted and growing American playwright.\"—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new anthology by Donald Margulies collects his best short plays and monologues written over the past 24 years. Taken as a whole, the work is an extraordinary representation of a particularly American reality of the twentieth century. His language is exquisite and deceptive in its simplicity, wherein the larger questions of our daily existence emerge and are clarified. The volume contains three major one-act plays including \u003ci\u003eJuly 7, 1994\u003c\/i\u003e, the hit of the 1995 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; \u003ci\u003ePitching to the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly comic look at the writers lot in Hollywood; and \u003ci\u003eLuna Park\u003c\/i\u003e, an elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience, based on a short story by Delmore Schwartz. The volume also includes fifteen other short plays and monologues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Margulies\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous plays, including \u003ci\u003eDinner with Friends \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, both being filmed for television by HBO and PBS. Mr. Margulies lives with his wife and son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso available by Donald Margulies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDinner with Friends\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePB $11.95 1-55936-194-8 • USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePB $11.95 1-55936-152-2 • USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSight Unseen and Other Plays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePB $16.95 1-55936-103-4 • USA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132562620656,"sku":"9781559367516","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781559367516_p0.jpg?v=1763756626","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781559367516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}