Almost an Evening
by Ethan Coen

Name: Almost an Evening
Brand: Ethan Coen
SKU: 9780822224228
Rating: 3.49 (2 reviews)

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One Act45 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsComedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: In ALMOST AN EVENING three short plays unsuccessfully tackle important questions.

In Waiting , someone waits somewhere for quite some time.

In Four Benches , a voyage to self-discovery takes a British intelligence agent to steam baths in New York and Texas, and to park benches in the U.S. and U.K.

In Debate , cosmic questions are taken up.

Not much is learned.

Press Reviews

"With their macabre humor and dark sense of irony, the Coen Brothers' films offer a distinctively skewed view of Americana, appropriating genres from screwball to noir to convey a bizarre world in which heinous things happen. A similarly twisted perspective—and a reference frame ranging from Beckett to Mamet—is applied in Ethan Coen's first solo work for the theater, ALMOST AN EVENING, three short plays that swap planet U.S.A. for a more abstract universe in which philosophical, existential and metaphysical questions bounce around."
— Variety