Blurring lines between the sacred and profane has always been a specialty of Mr. Guirgis... Riverside creeps up on you. And every time you think you’ve figured out where it’s going, Mr. Guirgis alters its course, forcing you to readjust your emotional bearings and your take on its characters. I’d locate it somewhere south of cozy and north of dangerous, west of sitcom and due east of tragedy.” –Ben Brantley, New York Times
“Guirgis has playwriting nerves of steel. For one thing, he chooses the right kind of worlds to write about: parallel to, but in many ways hidden from, our own, strange enough to fascinate yet recognizable enough to hit home. Language, too: the dialogue is always emotionally specific and accurate to the character, even as it makes the most profane and hilarious leaps... Completely compelling.” – Jesse Green, New York
“Scenes switch from tender to gritty to shocking... Guirgis specializes in stories of working-class heroes and zeroes — and everyone in between.” – Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News
“A wonderful, generous, altogether unpredictable urban tragicomedy.” – Linda Winer, Newsday
“Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and the profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us. His empathetic, poetic tales of ex-cons, addicts, and other men whom society would label losers return us, again and again, to a world that Guirgis, by virtue of his particular religion—the church of the streets—illuminates with the bright and crooked light of his faith.” – Hilton Als, New Yorker
“A gem! Quite possibly the author’s most accomplished piece to date. Over the past decade or so, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has become the foremost interpreter of NYC’s Upper West Side — actually, make that Upper, Upper West Side.” – Entertainment Weekly
After his wife's death, retired cop Walter `Pops' Washington has made a home for his ex-felon son in his sprawling, rent-controlled, Riverside Drive apartment. Will a long-simmering feud with the NYPD cause him to lose his home and the family he's built there? The play was the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring (in alphabetical order):
Elisa Bocanegra as Church Lady;
John Cothran as Pops;
Seamus Dever as Lieutenant Carrow;
James Martinez as Oswaldo;
Ana Ortiz as Lulu;
Larry Powell as Junior;
and Emily Swallow as Detective Audrey O'Connor.
Directed by Diane Rodriguez and recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in November 2017.
After his wife's death, retired cop Walter `Pops' Washington has made a home for his ex-felon son in his sprawling, rent-controlled, Riverside Drive apartment. Will a long-simmering feud with the NYPD cause him to lose his home and the family he's built there? The play was the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring (in alphabetical order):
Elisa Bocanegra as Church Lady;
John Cothran as Pops;
Seamus Dever as Lieutenant Carrow;
James Martinez as Oswaldo;
Ana Ortiz as Lulu;
Larry Powell as Junior;
and Emily Swallow as Detective Audrey O'Connor.
Directed by Diane Rodriguez and recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in November 2017.
Editorial Reviews
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940172028588 |
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| Publisher: | L.A. Theatre Works |
| Publication date: | 02/15/2018 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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