Mr Christopher Shinn 
Shinn Plays: 1 [EPUB ebook] 
Other People; the Coming World; Where Do We Live; Dying City

A first volume of four plays from the Amercian playwright whose play Dying City was a critical and popular success at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006.



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Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown. The play premièred in March 2000.

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Where Do We Live , set in a post-September 11 world, asks to what extent New York»s liberal multicultural society is under threat and how much we should care about the state in which our neighbours live.

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The Coming World moves from Shinn»s usual Manhattan environment to the coast of New England, where Dora is persuaded, against her better judgement, to help her ex, Ed, in a desperate attempt to escape from spiralling debt. Produced at the Soho Theatre in 2001.

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Dying City shifts between 2004 and 2005 — the eve of one brother»s departure for Iraq and the day that his twin brother visits his now widowed sister-in-law. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006 to great critical acclaim.



The books also features an introduction by the author.