Jim stayed at Dana’s house over Christmas, where, she says matter-of-factly, she watched him sharpen a pen into a weapon.
“Imagine some little Barbie doll going into this situation who’d never had a hand laid on her,” she laughs drily. When playwright Lucas Hnath was away at college in 1997, something terrible happened to his mother, Dana Higginbotham. When playwright Lucas Hnath was away at college in 1997, something terrible happened to his mother, Dana Higginbotham. Hnath won the 2016 Obie Award for excellence in playwriting for his plays “Red Speedo” and “The Christians”.
This.Director Les Waters has O’Connell “talk” to us in an anonymous motel room (Andrew Boyce did the set design), where the beige curtains are closed tightly against light from the parking lot outside. The scene she describes is almost too literary—the blinking Christmas tree, the couch, the man sharpening the pen, the swastikas on his arms winking in and out of light. However, I felt that the play lacked a steady rise to a climax. The Christians is about the founding pastor of a megachurch, who because of an unsettling experience, comes to no longer believe in eternal punishment for those who are not Christians. “This [play] is also my attempt to maybe make a tiny, tiny, tiny dent in helping to reprogram our sense of what that experience could look like.”.Also on the new episode of Stagecraft, Hnath talked mental remapping, his teenage anxiety about commas, and his suspicions about anything that’s too much fun.© Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Hnath’s other plays include Hillary and Clinton, The Thin Place, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac’s Eye, and Death Tax. His plays have also been premiered at the Humana Festival of New Plays, Victory Gardens, and South Coast Repertory. In the recordings, Dana sometimes reads from a manuscript that she wrote in 2013 as a response to a breakdown from her untreated trauma, and I wondered if fact and memory and PTSD might perhaps be melting into one another. What will her sudden return mean to those she left behind?Lucas Hnath’s funny, probing, and bold play is both a continuation of Ibsen’s complex exploration of traditional gender roles, as well as a sharp contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships across time.Hnath won the 2016 Obie Award for excellence in playwriting for his plays “Red Speedo” and “The Christians”.His other plays include “Hillary and Clinton”, “A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney”, “Isaac’s Eye”, and “Death Tax”.His works have been produced nationally and internationally with premieres at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Victory Gardens Theater and South Coast Repertory. “Now.O’Connell has the mouth of a tough cookie, but shy eyes; she’s usually smiling, putting her “interviewer” at ease, but her expression is often lost. A resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, Hnath's work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, University of Miami, The Culture Project, Target Margin and Ontological-Hysteric Theater. It’s so extreme and yet so convincing, most of us might have taken it for fiction.Seemingly unconnected events—trouble at work, a divorce, a son in college—leave her completely alone when, after a gruesome suicide attempt, Jim comes headfirst through her bathroom window. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Obie Award for Playwriting, Steinberg Playwright Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up.© 2020 Vox Media, LLC.
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