Back Of The Throat
by Yussef El Guindi

Name: Back Of The Throat
Brand: Yussef El Guindi
SKU: 9780822221852
Rating: 3.8 (85 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

45 mins Expandable Casting Flexible Cast Size Interior Set American Comedy

Synopsis

It is Stafford's mission to suspend you in a constant state of uncertainty: He unwinds a skein of conversations in which everything you are told has to be taken on trust, yet none of the characters is entirely to be trusted...each scene subtly erodes the a Sex, drugs and chamber music!

OPUS considers the matter of music making with an intimate, appraising eye, showing us the sweat, the drudgery and the delicate balance of personalities that lie behind the creation of a seemingly effortless performance.

Press Reviews

"…[a] brilliant and sinewy new play.” —The New Yorker. ”BACK OF THE THROAT could be the post-9/11 play we've been waiting for: the sum of all our domestic fears, played for uneasy laughs and piercing dread.“ —Newsday (NY). ”BACK OF THE THROAT plays like a section of the U.S. Patriot Act as dramatized by David Mamet and Franz Kafka.“ —American Theatre Magazine. ”…chillingly plausible vision…captures the Strangelovian logic of feds as well as the more subtle paranoia that afflicts us all.“ —Seattle Weekly. ”Wickedly funny…surely to be remembered as a valuable contribution to the post-9/11 canon of plays.“ —New City (Chicago). ”BACK OF THE THROAT is a must see for anyone who loves good theatre…"
— Gay Chicago Magazine