All in the Timing
Fourteen Plays
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
8 November 1994
Summary
The world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language — and of the audience’s capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives’s characters plunge into black holes called “Philadelphias,” where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which “hello” translates as “hook and loop …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679759287 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067975928X |
| Author: | David Ives |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 1994 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 132mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage Originals |
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Critics Review
“Theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart…Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright.” – Time
“Theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart…Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright.” – Time
David Ives
David Ives is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was educated at Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama. He won the 1994 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award for the Primary Stages production of All in the Timing, which was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding play. He is the author of an opera and short stories, and he has written for Hollywood and television.
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