Chaucer In Rome
by John Guare

Name: Chaucer In Rome
Brand: John Guare
SKU: 9780822218401
Rating: 3.16 (20 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

90 minsFlexible Cast SizeUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play. Some are impressed by the concept and execution, especially the character development, while others feel lost and disconnected from the story without prior knowledge of Guare's earlier work.

Incredible concept and executionStrong character developmentThought-provoking themesConfusing for those unfamiliar with Guare's work

Synopsis

THE STORY: In the Holy Year of 2000 in Rome, Matt has learned that his painting has given him a curable form of cancer.

In return for survival, he must abandon paint for a new artistic medium.

Ultimately he chooses to dress in religious garb, video

Press Reviews

"Mr. Guare has written exquisite monologues…whose very cadences seem shaped by shame. The details are vintage Guare…The sense of the grotesqueness in the everyday is dead-on…” —The New York Times. “…Guare is a wise and funny master of the ironies of fate and place…” —New York Post. ”CHAUCER IN ROME has all of Guare's hallmarks—the goofy detours into absurdism, the deeply black humor, lengthy discussions offering at once bizarre and profound views generously spiced with aphorisms…"
— CurtainUp