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Birth and After Birth and Other Plays: A Marriage Cycle
Tina Howe
Birth And After Birth
by Tina Howe
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
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2010
Binding Paperback
Pages 96
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573696107
ISBN-10 0573696101
LCCN 2010293530
LCC PS3558.O894 B57 2007
DCC 812/.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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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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