audiobook Frank McGuinness Plays 1: Factory Girls; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Innocence; Carthiginians; Baglady (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Frank McGuinness in Arts-Photography

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A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile... The marvel of Mr. Enorsquo;s voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly; poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes—‘Donrsquo;t ever change;rsquo; ‘Who knowsrsquo;—are turned inside out or twisted into blunt; unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily word-drunk. —Charles Isherwood; New York Times on Title and Deed"Title and Deed is daring within its masquerade of the mundane; spectacular within its minimalism and hilarious within its display of po-faced bewilderment. It is a clown play that capers at the edge of the abyss... Enorsquo;s voice is unique; his play is stage poetry of a high order. You canrsquo;t see the ideas coming in Title and Deed. When they arrive—tiptoeing in with a quiet yet startling energy—you donrsquo;t quite know how they got there. In this talersquo;s brilliant telling; it is not the narrator who proves unreliable but life itself. The unspoken message of Enorsquo;s smart; bleak musings seems to be: enjoy the nothingness while you can." —John Lahr; New Yorker"Eno is a supreme monologist; using a distinctive; edgy blend of non sequiturs and provisional statements to explore the fragility of our existence... There are a lot of words; but they are always exquisitely chosen... Oh; the Humanity reveals that we are beautiful walking tragedies blinking with absurd optimism into the camera lens of history." —Lyn Gardner; GuardianKnown for his wry humor and deeply moving plays; Will Enos "gift for articulating lifes absurd beauty and its no less absurd horrors may be unmatched among writers of his generation" (New York Times). This new volume of the acclaimed playwrights work includes five short plays about being alive—Behold the Coach; in a Blazer; Uninsured; Ladies and Gentlemen; the Rain; Enter the Spokeswoman; Gently; The Bully Composition; and Oh; the Humanity—as well as Title and Deed; a haunting and severely funny solo rumination on life as everlasting exile.WILL ENO is a fellow of Residency Five at Signature Theatre Company in New York. His play The Open House premiered at Signature in 2014; and received an Obie Award; the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play; and a Drama Desk Special Award. His play The Realistic Joneses premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2012; and was produced on Broadway in 2014; for which he and the cast received a Drama Desk Special Award. His play Title and Deed premiered at Signature in 2012 and was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. Both Title and Deed and The Realistic Joneses were included in the New York Times Best Plays List of 2012. Gnit; an adaption of Ibsenrsquo;s Peer Gynt; premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2013. Middletown; winner of the Horton Foote Prize; premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in New York in 2010; and was then produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2011. Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into many languages. The Flu Season premiered at the Gate Theatre in London in 2003; and later received the Oppenheimer Award for best New York debut production by an American writer. Tragedy: a tragedy premiered at the Gate Theatre in 2001; and was subsequently produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2008. Mr. Eno lives in Brooklyn with his wife Maria Dizzia and their daughter Albertine.