The Open House
by Will Eno

Name: The Open House
Brand: Will Eno
SKU: 9780573703096
Rating: 3.72 (8 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

Male

90 minsPresent DayInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk AwardLucille Lortel AwardObie Award

WINNER! 2014 Lucille Lortel Award - Outstanding Play WINNER! 2014 Obie Award - Playwrighting (Will Eno) & Direction (Oliver Butler) WINNER! 2014 Drama Desk Special Award

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the intriguing concept and unique approach of the play, noting its blend of family dynamics and existential themes. Many find the dialogue incisive and reflective of complex human relationships, while the atmosphere is described as both familiar and unsettling. However, some express uncertainty about how effectively the material would translate to a live performance.

Intriguing concept and themesClever and incisive dialogueAtmosphere is familiar yet unsettlingUncertainty about live performance adaptation

Synopsis

People have been born into families since people started getting born at all.

Playwrights have been trying to write Family Plays for a long time, too.

And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility.

They try to answer the question, "Can things really change?" People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes.

This has to stop.