{"product_id":"enterprise-brian-parks-9780881457971","title":"Enterprise","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"Run GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS through a Monty Python spin cycle and you might get Brian Parks's kinetic farce ENTERPRISE, an absurdist express train of comic corporate-speak...\u003cbr\u003e Four ambitious businessmen in a skyscraper--the bespectacled Weaver, the fresh-faced Sanders, the somewhat dim Owens and the experienced Landry--entertain big dreams of impressing the unseen chairman of their imperiled company with a proposal that will send profit margins into the stratosphere.\u003cbr\u003e But over a night the men spend collaborating, then pairing off into two rival factions, their hopes rise and fall in a stream of bluster, invective and recriminations.\u003cbr\u003e Their exchanges arrive in a succession of 45 rapid-fire blackouts, many introduced with pings and other audio snippets that suggest, say, a text alert, or a news-radio bulletin, or an office copier. Among the many concerns preoccupying these fatuous climbers are the suspiciousness of uncentered mimeographs; the \"smell\" of diminishing value; the Depression-era allure of jumping out a window; and the perceived vulnerability of office toilet stalls.\u003cbr\u003e Conspicuously absent from the discussions are mentions of home, family or women--as spouses, relatives or colleagues. (\"Astrology is astronomy for girls\", says Landry dismissively.) No surprise there: These men live only to compete with and impress one another (and their boss). No one else has any place in their displays of would-be brainpower and self-consuming testosterone.\u003cbr\u003e ...The true star is Mr Parks's dialogue: If a joke doesn't hit its mark (and some are simple non sequiturs), another one lands before you have time to notice.\u003cbr\u003e Mr Parks, a former theater editor at The Village Voice and an ex-chairm an of the Obie Awards, is noted for the fast pace of his work. ENTERPRISE comes off a 2017 run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Scotsman Fringe First Award. The playwright's hapless executives may not qualify for a raise, but his ENTERPRISE merits a promotion.\"\u003cbr\u003e Andy Webster, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Parks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881457973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881457971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d","brand":"Brian Parks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48449042546943,"sku":"9780881457971","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5079d6b-a4d7-49fb-afdb-72708f36b6a4.jpg?v=1777261701","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enterprise-brian-parks-9780881457971","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}