Telephone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989598583)

Fiction. Drama. There are phone lines to the living and others for calling the dead. TELEPHONE by Ariana Reines is a network for riveting acts of speech, and silence, and listening. I saw the play and never forgot it. The audience was lit like a switchboard by its storms of courage and mystical love.--Rachel Kushner

TELEPHONE is an uncanny parcel of theater in which the wishes of humans to speak with the dead meet the limits or the aspirations of technology. A woman wrapped in language is deemed insane and the lonely pastness of our present walks around calling for itself. TELEPHONE is a whild and visionary piece of art that announced to me a poet who is always tearing the future open like a trapped animal--their eyes reflect us. Don't look We mus. Bless you and love you Ariana for this great work.--Eileen Myles

I have been WAITING FOR THIS BOOK When I saw it in the theater every word motion fell into magic stride utterly taxing the soul with its accuracy and mystery. The next night I was at the box office with a different friend and needed to return to my job is the only thing that kept me from the theater a third night. Examine for yourself the bewitching and sometimes misshapen communicative powers of life with the poetry goddess of the stage, Ariana Reines -- CA Conrad

TELEPHONE, the inspired and utterly original new tone poem of a play, probes feelings with the sensitivity and detachment of a heart surgeon.--Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Author: Ariana Reines
ISBN-10: 0989598586
ISBN-13: 9780989598583
Publisher: Wonder
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2018