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Grimly Handsome - (Modern Plays) by Julia Jarcho (Paperback)

Grimly Handsome - (Modern Plays) by  Julia Jarcho (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else.</i><br/><i><br/></i>In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell Christmas trees on the sidewalk; two cops work to solve a killing spree; and a young woman finds herself transforming in ways she could never have imagined.<br/>A darkly comic thriller exploring the margins of a city and the violent fantasies they inspire.<br/><br/>Julia Jarcho's Obie Award-winning American play has its UK premiere at The Site, a new space at the Royal Court in December 2017.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>(a) poetic and often very funny script.<br/>New York Times<br><br>It is wrong to tell you too much about <i>GRIMLY HANDSOME</i>, Julia Jarcho's superbly wicked caprice...It's much better to awaken slowly to the creepiness of Jarcho's deep, dark woods, to go blithely into her Grimm landscape, which rustles with talking animals, smiling predators and language gone elliptical and awry...Jarcho, directing her own work, pulls off miracles.<br/>Time Out, New York<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Julia Jarcho</b>'s plays include the 2014 Obie Award winner <i>Grimly Handsome, Nomads</i> (Incubator Arts Project, NYC); <i>The Terrifying</i> (Abrons Arts Center, NYC); <i>Every Angel is Brutal</i> (Clubbed Thumb, NYC); <i>Dreamless Land</i> (New York City Players/Abrons Arts Center, NYC); <i>American Treasure</i> (13P/Paradise Factory, NYC); <i>The Highwayman</i> (NTUSA, NYC).

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