{"product_id":"title-and-deed-oh-the-humanity-and-other-good-intentions-9781559364652","title":"Title and Deed \/ Oh, the Humanity and Other Good Intentions","description":"\"A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile... The marvel of Mr. Eno's voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes--'Don't ever change, ' 'Who knows'--are turned inside out or twisted into blunt, unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily word-drunk.\" --Charles Isherwood, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c\/i\u003e is daring within its masquerade of the mundane, spectacular within its minimalism and hilarious within its display of po-faced bewilderment. It is a clown play that capers at the edge of the abyss... Eno's voice is unique; his play is stage poetry of a high order. You can't see the ideas coming in \u003ci\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c\/i\u003e. When they arrive--tiptoeing in with a quiet yet startling energy--you don't quite know how they got there. In this tale's brilliant telling, it is not the narrator who proves unreliable but life itself. The unspoken message of Eno's smart, bleak musings seems to be: enjoy the nothingness while you can.\" --John Lahr, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eno is a supreme monologist, using a distinctive, edgy blend of non sequiturs and provisional statements to explore the fragility of our existence... There are a lot of words, but they are always exquisitely chosen... \u003ci\u003eOh, the Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that we are beautiful walking tragedies blinking with absurd optimism into the camera lens of history.\" --Lyn Gardner, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnown for his wry humor and deeply moving plays, Will Eno's \"gift for articulating life's absurd beauty and its no less absurd horrors may be unmatched among writers of his generation\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). This new volume of the acclaimed playwright's work includes five short plays about being alive--\u003ci\u003eBehold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLadies and Gentlemen, the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEnter the Spokeswoman, Gently\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Bully Composition\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eOh, the Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as \u003ci\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c\/i\u003e, a haunting and severely funny solo rumination on life as everlasting exile. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILL ENO\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy, King: a problem play, and Intermission. His plays have been produced in London by the Gate Theatre and BBC Radio, and in the United States by Rude Mechanicals and Naked Angels. His play The Flu Season recently won the Oppenheimer Award, presented by NY Newsday for the previous year's best debut production in New York by an American playwright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Will Eno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559364652","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706487509129,"sku":"9781559364652","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0ffff2c4-aa09-430c-9bfb-c8b5a74e708d.jpg?v=1719458359","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/title-and-deed-oh-the-humanity-and-other-good-intentions-9781559364652","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}