Belleville by Amy Herzog (English) Paperback Book

Belleville

by Amy Herzog

Amy Herzog's devastating play about an American newlywed couple who move to a boho neighbourhood in Paris, only for their relationship to begin to unravel.

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Publisher Description

Americans Zack and Abby are bright, young and recently married. He's a doctor combating infant disease. She's an actress, who also teaches yoga. It's just before Christmas and they're living the expat high life in bohemian Belleville, Paris.It's all a little too perfect.Belleville was first produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2011, and transferred to New York Theatre Workshop in 2013. The play received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Michael Longhurst.Amy Herzog's other plays include Mary Jane, Pulitzer Prize finalist 4000 Miles, After the Revolution and The Great God Pan.

Author Biography

Amy Herzog's plays include Mary Jane (Yale Repertory Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, 2017; Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 2018); The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons, 2012); Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011; Donmar Warehouse, 2017; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); 4000 Miles (Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, 2011; Lincoln Center Theater, 2012; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Obie Award for the Best New American Play) and After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 2010).She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award.

Review

'The beauty of Belleville is that while it arrives at a place of horror, which in lesser hands might smack of implausible melodrama, it never slackens its grip on truth… what makes it so disquieting – and accomplished – is that we're witness to the accumulative power of subtle nudges – each eggs the other on, wittingly and unwittingly, towards a primeval forest of fear, hurt and rage' * Telegraph *
'A psychological thriller dressed up as a sitcom… the tension keeps ratcheting up' * The Times *
'At times it's hard to watch, but impossible to tear your eyes away… a heart-wrenching, stomach-churning portrayal of a marriage in crisis' * Radio Times *
'An exacting look at American millennials… an emotionally enervating psychological thriller [in which] Herzog ratchets the tension from homely to horror with real integrity and restraint' * Whatsonstage.com *
'Riveting… a Hitchcockian study in physical and emotional displacement' * The Arts Desk *
'Exerts a potboilerish grip on your attention and doesn't let go' * Time Out *
'A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller... Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years' * New York Times *
'Masterly... Among the new crop of young American playwrights, Herzog is in a class by herself' * Time *

Long Description

Americans Zack and Abby are bright, young and recently married. He's a doctor combating infant disease. She's an actress, also teaching yoga. It's just before Christmas and they're living the expat highlife in bohemian Belleville, Paris. It's all a little too perfect.

Review Quote

'A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller... Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years.'

Details ISBN1848427255 Author Amy Herzog Year 2017 ISBN-10 1848427255 ISBN-13 9781848427259 Media Book Publisher Nick Hern Books Imprint Nick Hern Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Format Paperback Language English DEWEY 812/.6 Series NHB Modern Plays UK Release Date 2017-12-07 AU Release Date 2017-12-07 NZ Release Date 2017-12-07 Pages 72 Publication Date 2017-12-07 Audience General

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• Condition: Brand new
• ISBN-13: 9781848427259
• Type: NA
• Publication Name: NA
• Publication Year: 2017
• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• Book Title: Belleville
• Item Height: 198mm
• Author: Not Available
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Topic: Plays
• Item Width: 129mm
• Number of Pages: 96 Pages

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