{"product_id":"evening-at-the-talk-house-wallace-shawn-9781559365208","title":"Evening at the Talk House (Tcg Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at seventy-two, still comes across as precocious--probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in all the world's ills.\"--\u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathering around a table at the Talk House, an old haunt, a group of friends and theatre artists reunite after ten years to reminisce and catch-up on each other's lives. At first, the conversation is fairly run-of-the-mill: current TV shows and where their careers have taken them. Eventually, the discussion's tone takes a turn when they mention supplementing their incomes through the government-led program to enlist unemployed artists for drone strikes and carrying out violent attacks on foreign land. As is typical of Shawn's plays, the premise at once amuses and unsettles, forcing the viewer to wonder whether being too idle makes all of us complicit in the world's ongoing destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Shawn \u003c\/b\u003eis a noted actor and writer. His often politically-charged and controversial plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAunt Dan and Lemon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie and Bruce\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Designated Mourner\u003c\/i\u003e. With Andre  Gregory, he co-wrote \u003ci\u003eMy Dinner with Andre \u003c\/i\u003e, in which he also starred. He adapted the classic Ibsen play \u003ci\u003eA Master Builder \u003c\/i\u003efor film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wallace Shawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155936520X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559365208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Wallace Shawn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989308932351,"sku":"9781559365208","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f192e400-a0a3-478f-be71-e742387b15d3.jpg?v=1683298772","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evening-at-the-talk-house-wallace-shawn-9781559365208","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}