The Lights
by Howard Korder

Name: The Lights
Brand: Howard Korder
SKU: 9780822214038
Rating: 2.87 (18 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Flexible Cast Size Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award

Winner of the 1994 Obie Award

Synopsis

"Exhilarating and electrifying theater.

It is fast, it is inevitable, and it is, as tragedy should be, weirdly beautiful" (New York Daily News) Rose, Lilian and her boyfriend, Frederic, are faces in the crowd, striving for the promise of a richer life that beckons all around them, just beyond our grasp.

On their night-long journey from innocence to experience, The Lights follows them across the landscape of an unnamed twentieth-century city haunted by desperation, hope, passion, corruption and the ghosts of its own past.

Press Reviews

"Winner of the 1994 Obie Award. THE LIGHTS is a dark investigation of the lives of a young couple as they struggle to exist in a large urban city that threatens to devour them. “Korder writes up a fury in a jackhammer blast of imagination that delivers tenfold on the promise of his earlier works…nothing, however, could prepare us for the lyrical authority of [his] voice in THE LIGHTS, which resonates with jagged elegies for a lost civilization.” —Newsday (NY). “There is a first despair that is just as transfiguring as first love, and Korder has caught its pulse and set it to music."
— New York Daily News