Bragen Andy Bragen

This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline (eBook, ePUB)

Two Plays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These plays by Andy Bragen examine the intimacies and shadows that exist between parents and children. In This Is My Office, a guided tour through an empty office becomes the unexpected portal to a forgotten New York and a father's legacy. This play brings you face-to-face with a narrator who finds his way through doubt, soul-sickness, and doughnut cravings by telling you a story. Not the one he meant to tell, but a richer one about family, redemption, and love. The autobiographical Notes on My Mother's Decline evokes the final days of a woman's life. Late at night, while his baby daughter sleeps, a son takes notes on his mother's daily life and scenes from their complicated relationship. He is shaping a play, as well as a perspective. Two blocks away, his mother naps, smokes, reads, and drinks coffee. She is shaping her existence within encroaching confines. Bragen plumbs silences and one-sided conversations to ask how we come to know one another as parents and as children. How do we care for those we love, and what does it take to live with-and without-them?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810144620
• Artikelnr.: 72446864

Autorenporträt

ANDY BRAGEN is the author of numerous plays, including The Hairy Dutchman; Spuyten Duyvil; Greater Messapia; Game, Set, Match; and Don't You F**king Say a Word. A graduate of Brown University's Literary Arts MFA Program, Bragen has been the recipient of Workspace and Process Space Residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Other honors include the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from Sewanee: The University of the South, a Jerome Fellowship, a New Voices Fellowship from the Ensemble Studio Theatre, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, a Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Residency, and residencies at Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center.