Rome Is Where The Heart Is
Arthur Wilmurt
Chaucer In Rome
by John Guare
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THE STORY: In the Holy Year of 2000 in Rome, Matt has learned that his painting has given him a curable form of cancer.
In return for survival, he must abandon paint for a new artistic medium.
Ultimately he chooses to dress in religious garb, video
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"Mr. Guare has written exquisite monologues…whose very cadences seem shaped by shame. The details are vintage Guare…The sense of the grotesqueness in the everyday is dead-on…” —The New York Times. “…Guare is a wise and funny master of the ironies of fate and place…” —New York Post. ”CHAUCER IN ROME has all of Guare's hallmarks—the goofy detours into absurdism, the deeply black humor, lengthy discussions offering at once bizarre and profound views generously spiced with aphorisms…"
— CurtainUp
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 2002
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822218401
ISBN-10 0822218402
LCCN 2006386791
LCC PS3557.U2 C47 2002
Chaucer In Rome is a American comedy play written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service (2002).
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