{"product_id":"the-flu-season-and-other-plays-9781559362917","title":"The Flu Season and Other Plays","description":"\"Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights I have come across in a number of years. His work is inventive, disciplined and, at the same time, wild and evocative. His ear is splendid and his mind is agile.\"--Edward Albee \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor and pain of life. Eno specializes in the connections of the unconnected, the apologetic murmurings of the disengaged.\"--\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2004 Oppenheimer Award for best New York debut by an American playwright, \u003ci\u003eThe Flu Season\u003c\/i\u003e is a reluctant love story, in spite of itself. Set in a hospital and a theater, it is a play that revels in ambivalence and derives a flailing energy from its doubts whether a love story is ever really a love story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill Eno has been called \"a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation\" \u003ci\u003e(New York Times)\u003c\/i\u003e--he is a playwright with an extraordinary voice and a singular theatrical vision. Also included in this volume are \u003ci\u003eTragedy: A Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIntermission.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Eno \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of\u003ci\u003e Thom Pain (based on nothing)\u003c\/i\u003e, which ran for a year Off-Broadway and was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Other works include \u003ci\u003eOh, the Humanity and other good intentions, The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIntermission\u003c\/i\u003e.\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 12\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559362917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.45w x 0.34d","brand":"Will Eno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44848913612981,"sku":"9781559362917","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aa8b6b00-b1bb-46d4-8b92-21271ceb8a05.jpg?v=1732634246","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-flu-season-and-other-plays-9781559362917","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}