{"product_id":"now-you-see-me-neal-bell-9780881456509","title":"Now You See Me","description":"Claire has a significant relationship with her television: she talks, and it answers her. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she auditions to participate in a reality TV show so she can fight her \"Final Battle\" in front of millions of viewers. \"A dark comedy with disturbing insights ... funny and provocative.\" -The News \u0026amp; Observer (Raleigh, NC) \"The technology of vanity is developing so quickly that NOW YOU SEE ME, the new play by Neal Bell, is almost a period piece already. The play imagines what would happen if a terminal cancer patient was the star of a reality T V show that would chronicle her own decay and death ... The play ... [is] crammed with intriguing ideas, dramatic and otherwise ... such as the suggestion that watching people die is a kind of pornography. Among the liveliest inventions is Bell's plainly deliberate use of stock television-show dialogue for his characters, echoed here and there by actual T V programs seen in fragments on one of two onstage screens. NOW YOU SEE ME comes on like a sitcom - it very nearly is a sitcom, a critique of the thing by nearly being it-and implicitly asks us whether reality shows aren't actually sitcoms themselves, a cheapening of everyone involved, including the viewer.\" -Adam Sobsey, Indy Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neal Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881456500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881456509\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 06\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Neal Bell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438037676287,"sku":"9780881456509","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ddf12913-9787-434d-ad9a-c09578832ac7.jpg?v=1777168378","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/now-you-see-me-neal-bell-9780881456509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}