{"product_id":"plays-by-michael-mcguire-paperback","title":"Plays By Michael McGuire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael McGuire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Here are some of the things I admire about Michael McGuire as \u003cbr\u003e a playwright: \u003cbr\u003e He takes chances.\u003cbr\u003e He understands that plays should be  about' something.\u003cbr\u003e He understands that playwriting must be a socially responsible act.\u003cbr\u003e He understands that to be truly entertaining a play must involve us \u003cbr\u003e deeply.\u003cbr\u003e He understands that each play must have its own identity--its own voice.\u003cbr\u003e I wish all playwrights understood this.\"\u003cbr\u003e Edward Albee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"McGuire's writing is hauntingly thoughtful, inexorably true.\"\u003cbr\u003e Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"...events in this play are ordered by a tightly controlled magination; Mr McGuire's aim is to keep testing the emotional limits of the audience until the last light goes out.\"\u003cbr\u003e D J R Bruckner, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"As with all of Mr McGuire's work, these plays are mysterious, \u003cbr\u003e lyric, and full of strange, and often startling surprises.\"\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Martin, Founding Director, C S C Repertory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This is not hit or miss experimentation, but the mature work of an artist with a love for words and a highly developed sensitivity for the theatrical.\"\u003cbr\u003e John Schneider, Artistic Director, Theatre X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"As I've suggested, what makes his plays special is their literariness. I don't mean anything like mere rhetoric, but in the theatricality a verbal delicacy of feeling, with nuances of perception that you'd expect to find in more private forms. He was always, in the theater, resistant to those who were dismissing language because they never thought much of it, or even when they did because, in his view of theater, the beginning is the word. That may or may not be true, but if we're going to have language on stage would that more playwrights had as fine a sense of it as Michael McGuire.\"\u003cbr\u003e Herbert Blau, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"...People willing to enter [the play's] own special world will certainly find it puzzling but also memorable...it is a different kind of theatrical experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e Clive Barnes, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44533711044743,"sku":"9780881451603","price":28.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/tVL4eBzq5S9780881451603.webp?v=1777189820","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/plays-by-michael-mcguire-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}