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Birth and After Birth and Other Plays: A Marriage Cycle
Tina Howe
Birth And After Birth
by Tina Howe
What readers are saying
Readers love the imaginative and whimsical qualities of the play. Many appreciate the comedic elements and beautiful choices made by the playwright, Tina Howe. Overall, the play is described as a fun experience that resonates with audiences.
Imaginative and whimsicalPerfectly silly comedyBeautiful choices by the playwrightNone noted, overwhelmingly positive
Synopsis
Comedy / 3m 2f / Int.
Newly revised!
Recently produced in 2006 at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City this witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party.
The boy's parents have invited another couple anthropologists renowned for their international studies of childhood behavior.
The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other s
Press Reviews
"A stunning theatrical experience that explores the magic and madness in family dynamics."
— Main Line Times
"An antic farce and a poignant drama ... that is laugh out loud funny and disturbingly sober.... It's a pearl."
— Metropolitan D.C. Times
"One of [Tina Howe's] significant works.... Will be remembered as the high point of Philadelphia's annual Theatre Week."
— TheatreWeek
Publication
PublisherSamuel French
Year2010
BindingPaperback
Pages96
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573696107
ISBN-100573696101
LCCN2010293530
LCCPS3558.O894 B57 2007
DCC812/.54
Birth And After Birth is a American comedy play written by Tina Howe and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).
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Samuel French · 2010 · 96 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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