{"product_id":"six-plays-9781559360531","title":"Six Plays","description":"\"Mr. Linney continues to be one of our most perceptive chroniclers of the folkways of rural America, finding humanity and nobility in the most remote of places.\" -Mel Gussow, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Linney's words do it all, summoning up vistas of scary beauty and passions of elemental force.\" -David Richards, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His output was dazzling in its variety and exceptional for its depth as well as its breadth of scope. Goering at Nuremberg, Lord Byron's daughter, the Washington novels of Henry Adams: Life, literature, and history were all his materials, not to be milled down into iconic emptiness, but to be explored for the values they might carry...One of America's best playwrights.\" -Michael Feingold, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRomulus Linney is one of American drama's best-kept secrets. Uniquely adept at capturing the idiomatic poetry of his native South, he maneuvers with equal grace through the vernacular of New York's contemporary intelligentsia and the voices of a wide range of historical figures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Childe Byron\u003c\/i\u003e, the dying daughter of the notorious Lord Byron conjures a confrontation with the father she never knew. In \u003ci\u003e2\u003c\/i\u003e, Linney scrutinizes Hitler's infamous second-in-command, Hermann Goering, behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials. \u003ci\u003eTennessee\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the indomitability of early Appalachian mountain settlers, while\u003ci\u003e Heathen Valley\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the same region's citizens' subsequent search for faith. In\u003ci\u003e FM\u003c\/i\u003e, an authentic genius stumbles into the creative writing course of a small Alabama college. Set among SoHo literati, \u003ci\u003e April Snow\u003c\/i\u003e is a compassionate study of a world-weary screenwriter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEndowed with Linney's lyric intensity, augmented by his rich sense of humor, the six plays in this volume illuminate a major talent of the American Theatre.\u003cbr\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 08\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559360531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.38w x 0.87d","brand":"Romulus Linney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45234726568117,"sku":"9781559360531","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_92c80148-a9ff-4b38-8902-4cbc0b8b605f.jpg?v=1743518522","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/six-plays-9781559360531","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}