New from TCG Books: How to transcend a happy marriage
by Sarah Ruhl
NEW YORK, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of How to transcend a happy marriage by Sarah Ruhl. The play received its world premiere at Lincoln Center Theater in New York in the spring of 2017.
“This new play is a subversive enchantment. It is part absurd domestic seriocomedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn’t enough.” —Linda Winer, Newsday
Over dinner with another married couple, George and her husband grow fascinated by stories of their friends’ new acquaintance—an intriguing younger woman named Pip. What begins as an innocent intellectual discussion turns into a sexually explosive New Year’s Eve party after George extends an invitation to Pip and her two live-in boyfriends, raising the question: What ultimately binds human beings together?
“Ms. Ruhl is one of the most gifted American playwrights… Her imagination is among the most adventurous at play today in the theater.” —Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Tony Award nominee, Best Play) and The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Becky Nurse of Salem, and Eurydice. Her first book of poetry, 44 Poems for You (Copper Canyon Press), will be published in 2020. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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How to transcend a happy marriage
By Sarah Ruhl
144 pages
October 2019
$14.95
Paperback
978-1-55936-572-7
eBook
978-1-55936-888-9
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