- Journalism, Drama, Editing, Interpersonal relations
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated, Hern Books, Limited, Nick, Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781848426634
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. His play Purpose won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for which his works Gloria and Everybody were finalists in 2016 and 2018, respectively. His play Appropriate marked his Broadway debut as a playwright in 2023 and earned him his first Tony Award; he won a second in 2025 for Purpose. His additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.
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