Abstract Expression
by Theresa Rebeck

Name: Abstract Expression
Brand: Theresa Rebeck
SKU: 9780573642456
Rating: 3.8 (15 reviews)

Abstract Expression Book Cover — Abstract Expression Cover

Highlights

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Present DayRole(s) for Black Actor(s)Unit Set/Multiple SettingsComedy

Synopsis

After a scathing review 15 years ago, a once-celebrated painter faded into impoverished obscurity.

Can one chance encounter resurrect this volatile artist from obscurity and re-launch him to overnight success?

Theresa Rebeck skillfully compares the gritty urban realities of lives lived on the edge with the capricious intrigues of the uptown gallery scene where fame might just be a matter of who you know and reputations can be bought and sold.

Press Reviews

"Meaningful questions of morality, aesthetics and class conflict."
— The Seattle Times

"Underneath her satirical surface, equal to the best of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The School for Scandal, Rebeck rekindles the troubling assertion that it was the support of the political, financial and artistic establishment that made possible the triumph of absract expressionist paintings and transferred the capital of the art world from Paris to New York."
— New Haven Register

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Sylvia White, early sixties	—	—	White, early sixties
Lillian White, late thirties	—	—	White, late thirties
Eugene White, forty	—	—	White, forty
Jenny White, twenty-eight	—	—	White, twenty-eight
Kidman White, early fifties	—	—	White, early fifties
Ray/Lucas Black, late twenties	—	—	Black, late twenties
Phillip/Jordy White, late twenties	—	—	White, late twenties
Willie White, thirty	—	—	White, thirty
Charlie Black, mid-fifties	—	—	Black, mid-fifties