- Drama, Suburban life, Generation X, Young adults
SubUrbia is a play by Eric Bogosian chronicling the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings still living in their suburban New Jersey hometown and their reunion with a former high school classmate who has become a successful musician. The musician Pony's return strips away illusions and excuse to reveal the meaningless dead-end existences of everyone.
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Intimate, classical in form, contemporary and prestige.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Eric Bogosian
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 101
- Publisher
- Dramatists Play Service, Tandem Library, Theatre Communications Group
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417622481
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“"Norman Chaudry, twenty-four, and his sister Pakeesa, twenty, can be seen at work within the 7-Eleven."”
Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and the film adaptation of that play, Talk Radio (NYSF – 1987). For this work he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Berlin Film Festival “Silver Bear Award.” He is also well known for his six solo performances Off-Broadway (Men Inside, FunHouse, Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee) between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie awards. In addition to Talk Radio, Bogosian has written a number of full-length plays including suburbia (LCT), Griller (Goodman), Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter).
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