Becky Shaw

by Gina Gionfriddo

Overview

Becky Shaw is an amusing and craftily constructed comedy about ambition, the cost of being truthful, and the perils of a blind date. The fast and funny dialogue navigates between five distinctively perverse and disingenuously dysfunctional characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408156001
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/13/2011
Series:	Modern Plays
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Gina Gionfriddo is an American writer and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Her plays include Can You Forgive Her?; Rapture, Blister, Burban; Becky Shaw; After Ashley; and U.S. Drag. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Susan Smith Blackburban Prize. Her television writing includes The Alienist, Angel of Darkness, House of Cards, and three incarnations of Law & Order.

Editorial Reviews

Gina Gionfriddo's comedy of bad manners, a tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their thirties, is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last…deftly plotted, scabrous and sharp-witted…” —New York Times

“The characters in Gionfriddo's blind-date-gone-bad black comedy share the potential to revolt…They're also subversively funny-and improbably charming. Grade: A.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Scathing, class-conscious comedy…Becky Shaw exerts a hypnotic pull, thanks in large part to the wonderfully witty dialogue and complex characterizations.” —New York Post

From the Publisher

Has the moral subtlety of Jane Austen but it yanks its characters' illusions down with the off-kilter ease that's usually the trademark of access-all-areas TV satirists like Larry David or Tina Fey.

Time Out London

Ferociously funny comedy of outrageously bad manners...From the start, you're riveted.

Daily Mail

It is dazzlingly written and studded with rapier-sharp lines.

Financial Times (of London)

It remains sharp and funny to the end, and presents its characters with the irony and wit of a latter-day Jane Austen.

Daily Telegraph