The Lights
by Howard Korder

Name: The Lights
Brand: Howard Korder
SKU: 9780413711908
Rating: 2.87 (18 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 minsFlexible Cast SizeUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award

Winner of the 1994 Obie Award

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the emotional depth and beauty of the play. Many find its exploration of bleakness to be both moving and transformative, reflecting on how despair can evoke profound feelings similar to love. The production quality is noted as key to its success, showcasing strong performances and music enhancements.

Emotional depth and beautyTransformative exploration of despairRequires a strong production to shine

Synopsis

Rose, Lilian and her boyfriend, Fredric, are faces in the crowd, striving for the presence of a richer life that beckons all around them, just beyond their 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