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All in the Timing

副标题: Fourteen Plays

ISBN: 9780822213963

出版社: Vintage

出版年: 1994-11-8

页数: 336

装帧: Pap

内容简介

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud."

作者简介

David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for writing comic one-act plays, a reputation which resulted in the New York Times referring to him as the "maestro of the short form".[1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays.