Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. In his new fiction, playwright, poet and novelist Mac Wellman has created an hilarious satire of American Theater. Chris Name, a nobody working at the local Sweet Thumb River Valley Reactor complex, is suddenly taken up by a local theater director, who presents Name's play, the performance of which ends in the death of the theater company's chief and in the end of more than one theater career. One of America's most renowned and respected playwrights, Wellman has created in this new work a world peopled by cantankerous, wistful, confused, and frightened people who have lost parts of their bodies, their minds, and their souls in the perpetual machine of the American dream.
Synopsis
A novel by the author of Crowtet (plays) and Annie Salem (novel)
Synopsis
Playwright, poet and novelist Mac Wellman has created, in his newest fiction, a hilarious satire of American theater the climaxes in a performance resulting in the death of the Theater company’s chief and in the end of more than one theater career.
About the Author
One of the most recognized contemporary playwrights, Wellman is also well known for his fiction (Annie Salem, The Fortuneteller) and poetry