How the World Began

by Catherine Trieschmann

Overview

A provocative intelligent and deeply felt play from the author of Crooked and The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock Catherine Trieschmann that earned critical acclaim Off-Broadway at The Women's Project. A Manhattan woman travels to a rural town in Kansas recently devastated by a tornado to take a teaching job in a makeshift high school. But when she makes an off-handed remark regarding the origins of life she unleashes community outrage and the particular distress of a disturbed young boy. In an intimate and artful inquiry of her character's very souls Trieschmann invites audiences to consider their own beliefs and their perhaps unspoken opinions of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573700583
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	10/28/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

Catherine Trieschmann's plays include The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock (Weissberger Award), crooked, The World of Others, Hot Georgia Sunday, Small and Selfish Creatures, and How the World Began. Her work has been produced Off-Broadway at the Women's Project, South Coast Repertory, the Bush Theatre, the New Theatre (Sydney), American Theatre Company (Chicago), Florida Stage, the Summer Play Festival, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Theatre in the Square, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the New York International Fringe Festival. She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Angel's Crest, which premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Originally from Athens, Georgia, she currently resides in a small town in western Kansas.