cover image by John Alves, Alves Design
“The
forms of love that dare not speak their names are pretty scarce in this age of
the tabloid talk shows. But that hasn't stopped Edwin Sanchez, a new playwright
of tremendous emotional conviction...
How do you feel, for example, about a thirty year-old Roman Catholic priest
in love with a ten year-old boy? The relationship—which,
it should probably be noted right away, is never consummated—is
at the center of CLEAN....
Mr Sanchez is a wide-eyed, unregenerate romantic who uses what he describes
as `impossible' relationships to consider and celebrate the arbitrariness of
love.
In a sense, the play is like a contemporary MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in which
the passion-drunk characters, rather than being sorted into socially acceptable
pairs, learn to live in a world ruled by a blind Cupid. It is a theme Mr Sanchez
explored in TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, an unsettling drama about a doomed gay
triangle....
He is, in other words, a playwright to watch closely.”
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
first produced by Hartford Stage
5 M, 1 F
I S B N 978-0-88145-488-8
$14.95
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