| Notes from Underground Tcg Edition Contributor(s): Bogosian, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1559361425 ISBN-13: 9781559361422 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: "A born storyteller with perfect pitch". -- New York Times Includes Notes From Underground, the increasingly disturbing writings, in diary form, of an urban recluse who wants desperately to belong to society but instead lives in a hell of his own creation; and Scenes from the New World, a play in three acts, in which a narrator participates in hilarious and troubling dramas in three settings: a city replete with winos, whores and thugs; a trendy restaurant; and the office of a wheeling-and-dealing talent agent. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Dystopian |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97040724 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.38" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A born storyteller with perfect pitch. - New York Times This volume features two of Bogosian's more unsettling works. Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who wants desperately to be normal but ultimately sinks into an abyss of his own making. Scenes from the New World is a play composed of three one-acts, probing modern life on the eve of the millennium. One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian's solo-performance career. |