John
Author | : Annie Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 1848427336 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781848427334 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The week after Thanksgiving. A bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching. John, an uncanny play by Annie Baker, was first seen Off-Broadway in 2015. The play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by James Macdonald. Annie Baker's other plays include Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick, The Antipodes, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, and an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. She has won many other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Grant.