ISBN: 1559366516 9781559366519

Category: Drama / American / General

Page count: 240

<br><p>"<i>Fifty Words</i> has a gimlet eye, providing meticulously chosen, artfully integrated details that let us understand why its characters so love and loathe each other. Like Mr. Albee's <i>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i> it understands how closely hate and love can be linked in marriage."—<i>The New York Times</i></p><br><p>In <i>Fifty Words</i>, a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; <i>Do Not Disturb</i> dramatizes Adam's infidelity at a hotel with former lover Melinda; and in <i>Side Effects</i>, Melinda and her husband Hugh come to terms with their broken relationship.</p><br><p><b>Michael Weller</b> has written over forty dramatic works, including the plays <i>Moonchildren</i>, <i>Fishing</i>, <i>Loose Ends</i>, and <i>Beast</i>, and the screenplays for <i>Hair</i> and <i>Ragtime</i>.</p><br>