Corsicana / Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

by Will Arbery

Overview

A double-volume of plays by acclaimed playwright Will Arbery that explore communities of outsiders who strive to help one another persevere in the face of despair.

In this two-play volume, acclaimed playwright Will Arbery explores the dynamics within tight-knit communities of outsiders working together to persevere against despair, whether intimate or cosmic. From wildly different angles, Corsicana and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing both examine the shape-shifting specters of grief, the pull of desire and dreams, and the universal human need for receiving and giving care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636701875
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	05/28/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. His plays include Plano, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Corsicana, You Hateful Things, and Wheelchair. Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Other awards include an Obie Award for Playwriting and the Whiting Award for Drama. TV work includes Succession and Irma Vep.

Editorial Reviews

Corsicana

“Watching Corsicana, I felt it was about who gets to make art, and for whom. Reading it, I felt it was about how becoming ‘grown’ is, for anyone, a lifelong process of failing upward. Thinking back on it, I feel it was about the way the world tucks beauty inside envelopes of sorrow, and vice versa . . . Without ignoring the bone-deep sadness of characters confused and stymied by loss, it lets us watch them climb their way out of it—heading toward joy and sharing some in the process.” —Jesse Green, New York Times

“The four characters of Arbery’s Corsicana are all figuring things out: how to mature, how to move on, how to love, how to express. And they’re all taking care of each other in little ways . . . Will Arbery is quickly establishing himself as the poet of Texas loneliness. He is one of the most excit­ing playwrights working in the American theater, stretching the form to new shapes and expanding his voice with each successive play.” —Lane Williamson, Exeunt

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

“In a great piece of art, you’ll have one moment where the truth will punch through. But in a pro­foundly generous piece of art, like Evanston—a play that is theoretical, painful, deep, and hysteri­cally funny—those moments of truth keep punch­ing through and through and through.” —Chloe Cooper Jones, Bomb Magazine

 “Arbery is the playwright of the moment. His proj­ect as a playwright is to yank away that ‘dishon­est mask of pretended order,’ using the means he has at hand—the empathetic tools of performance and the electrifying effects of wild unreality.” —Helen Shaw, New Yorker

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