The Muckle Man
by Roberto Aguirre-sacasa

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Highlights

90 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmericanMystery

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play's impact. While some enjoy the fun ending, others highlight the emotional weight and terror invoked by the story.

Fun ending!Emotional depthEngaging storylineMixed feelings on overall impact

Synopsis

THE STORY: Off the icy shores of Newfoundland, on a remote island, the Clarke family threatens to break apart.

The father, Addison, a marine biologist, desperately pursues the ocean's most elusive creature--Architeuthis, the giant squid--while his es

Press Reviews

"You can't really slap a label on Aguirre-Sacasa's play, which has no trouble hooking the audience…Explaining what a muckle man is (in case you don't know) would spoil the plot—a plot that is, at bottom, a folkloric thriller. Aguirre-Sacasa, who has a frisky sense of humor, fashions a swift, dark ending that races like the wind.“ —Washington Post.   ”A fascinating new play…a postmodern delight…a highly original blend of influences and styles adding up to something new and entirely fresh…As in the best stories of Garcia Marquez, [events] in Aguirre-Sacasa's play quickly become simultaneously darker and funnier…The playwright's bright future seems assured.“ —Washington Blade.   ”A smart, crisply written and engrossing sci-fi narrative in which a mysterious creature does what aliens or the unknown usually do, intensify and illuminate human needs and passions…Aguirre-Sacasa writes so winningly, I fear he'll be snapped up for sit-com writing, rather than go on building what promises to be a "

— Talkin' Broadway

Publication

Year2009
BindingPaperback
Pages72
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822223337
ISBN-100822223333
LCCN2010526459
LCCMLCS 2011/42405 (P)

The Muckle Man is a American mystery play written by Roberto Aguirre-sacasa and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2009).

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Dramatists Play Service · 2009 · 72 pp

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