The Flu Season
by Will Eno

Name: The Flu Season
Brand: Will Eno
SKU: 9780822220770
Rating: 3.94 (84 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsBare Stage/Simple SetAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find the play to be a deeply tragic and emotional exploration of love and loss, often set against the backdrop of a mental hospital. Many appreciate its poetic language and potential for varied interpretation, although some note a sense of confusion at first and mention the play's avant-garde elements. Overall, it is generally well-received as a compelling read and performance piece.

Emotional and heartbreakingRich language and poetryRoom for interpretationConfusing at first

Synopsis

Edward Albee has said, "Will Eno is one of the finest young playwrights I have come across in a number of years.

Eno's work is inventive, disciplined, and, at the same time, wild and evocative."

This play has opened to wide acclaim at London's Gate Theatre this year.

Eno has also recently filmed a version of his first play Tragedy: a tragedy called Night, Night

His new play will be produced by the Rude Mechanicals next year.

Press Reviews

"Winner of the 2004 Oppenheimer Award. ”In Will Eno's latest play, a love story goes bad (really bad), a play gets written in painful fits and starts, snow falls, it turns to slush. Maybe spring arrives. This is a play to remind us why sunsets make us sad, how nostalgia is like fog and why we live our lives as though we are in mourning for them. THE FLU SEASON is stingingly funny and really rather beautiful. Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor and pain of life. Eno specializes in the connections of the unconnected, the apologetic murmurings of the disengaged, those who have suppressed their humanity to survive. It is vicious stuff, written in a language so deceptively innocent, so full of platitudes, that you don't realize it has cut you deep until you feel the warm seep of bloody despair.“ —Guardian (UK). ”Eno's playwriting is of a potent strain—tough to anticipate, difficult to resist."
— Village Voice