Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb

by Maria Striar, Erin Detrick

Overview

This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways — including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow, among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the pulse of new work, and these plays prove it."

Includes the plays The Typographer's Dream by Adam Bock, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan, Demon Baby by Erin Courtney, 16 Spells to Charm the Beast by Lisa D'Amour, Inky by Rinne Groff, Dearest Eugenia Haggis by Ann Marie Healy, Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780970904621
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword   Oskar Eustis     5
Introduction   Maria Striar     7
Clubbed Thumb Mission Statement     9
How to Get Performance Rights     10
The Typographer's Dream   Adam Bock     13
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)   Sheila Callaghan     53
Demon Baby   Erin Courtney     97
16 Spells to Charm the Beast   Lisa D'Amour     131
Inky   Rinne Groff     177
Dearest Eugenia Haggis   Ann Marie Healy     227
Freakshow   Carson Kreitzer     269
Clubbed Thumb Chronology     311