{"product_id":"exquisite-agony-9781559369510","title":"Exquisite Agony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully strange... An opera star with a penchant for dramatic sorrow shows up at a doctor's office, looking for her husband's heart. Someone got it when he died--which means that somewhere, inside another person's rib cage, a piece of her husband lives on... Thus begins a tantalizing correspondence in Nilo Cruz's \u003cem\u003eExquisite Agony\u003c\/em\u003e, a play about the human heart: its fumblings and yearnings, its bruises and scars, its generosity and viciousness.\" --Laura Collins-Hughes, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eExquisite Agony \u003c\/em\u003eis about a woman who finds life in death, in an atmosphere where poetic insights are the norm and women are the center. Cruz's feminist view is one of the liberating aspects of his writing, as is a kind of magical realism that is not cloying but true to his characters, and to the fact of dispossession: sometimes we don't know who we are because we don't know where life has landed on our bodies, let alone in our hearts.\" --Hilton Als, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eExquisite Agony \u003c\/em\u003eis explosive... As in several of Cruz's previous works, drama ignites from the friction between the banal and the magical.\" --Zachary Stewart, \u003cem\u003eTheaterMania\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eExquisite Agony \u003c\/em\u003eentertains and enraptures... There's rueful humor, Chekhovian reveries, and a sense of the mystical... Ravishing on all levels.\" --Darryl Reilly, \u003cem\u003eTheatreScene.net\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNilo Cruz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Cuban-American playwright and director, and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for his play \u003cem\u003eAnna in the Tropics\u003c\/em\u003e. His other plays include \u003cem\u003eSotto Voce\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeauty of the Father\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwo Sisters and a Piano\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLorca in a Green Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDancing on Her Knees\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNight Train to Bolina\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559369510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.40d","brand":"Nilo Cruz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659791200412,"sku":"9781559369510","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9e73d682-626c-43f6-859f-bc86739755eb.jpg?v=1603895476","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/exquisite-agony-9781559369510","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}