4000 Miles

by Amy Herzog

Overview

Genre: Drama
Character: 1 male and 3 females
Scenery: Interior

After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 Miles looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.

"A funny, moving, alto

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573700378
Publisher:	Samuel French, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/16/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	1,051,429
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Amy Herzog's plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival; Playwrights Horizons; John Gassner Award Nomination; Lilly Award), 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center), Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre; New York Theatre Workshop) and The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons). She has received commissions from the Yale Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons. Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and the Helen Merrill Award; she is an alumna of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Play Group at Ars Nova and the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale, and received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Editorial Reviews

"Plays as truthful and touching and fine as Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles come along once or maybe twice a season, if we're lucky - Ms. Herzog's gift is to capture the precise texture of life in all its ambiguity and lack of tidy resolution, while still holding our attention fast by tapping into the compassion and curiosity about human nature that draws us (let us hope) to the theatre."

The New York Times

"Everything about 4000 Miles seems fresh, particularized, plausible...easily the best play of the season"

Time Entertainment

"The sort of rich, satisfying play you should take your grandmother to - especially if she's as smart and fierce as Vera"

Time Out

"Herzog has a wry wit and a skillful hand with dialogue."

Washingtonian

"4,000 Miles by Amy Herzog is an exquisite play bursting with humanity, honesty and searing emotions cut through with razor wit and observations. An essentially simple story of love, loss and loneliness but the sincerity of delivery grabs at your very soul."

What's On Stage

"[Herzog's] characters and dialogue are full of quirky surprises, and she knows how to construct a scene that stays fresh and inventive right till the end. The second act of 4000 Miles contains the best new writing for the American stage I've seen in years."

Dallas News

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