Detroit

Informationen zum Autor Lisa D Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright and one half of PearlDamour, an interdisciplinary performance company she runs with Katie Pearl. Her play Detroit was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Her work has been produced by theaters such as Steppenwolf Theatre, Children s Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, the Walker Arts Center, and the Kitchen. D Amour received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and currently splits her time between Brooklyn and New Orleans. Klappentext In a "first ring" suburb outside a midsize American city! Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who've moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control! shattering the fragile hold that newly unemployed Ben and burgeoning alcoholic Mary have on their way of life--with unexpected comic consequences. "Detroit "is a fresh! offbeat look at what happens when we dare to open ourselves up to something new. After premiering at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last year to rave reviews! Lisa D'Amour's brilliant and timely play moves to Broadway this fall.

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Lisa D Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright and one half of PearlDamour, an interdisciplinary performance company she runs with Katie Pearl. Her play Detroit was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Her work has been produced by theaters such as Steppenwolf Theatre, Children s Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, the Walker Arts Center, and the Kitchen. D Amour received her MFA in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and currently splits her time between Brooklyn and New Orleans.

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In a "first ring" suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who've moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control, shattering the fragile hold that newly unemployed Ben and burgeoning alcoholic Mary have on their way of life-with unexpected comic consequences. Detroit is a fresh, offbeat look at what happens when we dare to open ourselves up to something new. After premiering at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last year to rave reviews, Lisa D'Amour's brilliant and timely play moves to Broadway this fall.