cover photo by Joan Marcus
“If you see (and you need to) [Richard
Nelson’s] soul-stirring new play, SWEET AND SAD, the odds are that you you’ll
experience the kind of shivery moments that come when someone articulates ideas
that have been lurking in your head, unexpressed and perhaps even unrecognized….
Without ever steeping onto a soapbox, SWEET AND SAD ultimately dares to ask
questions about our responses to September 11, that we might be afraid to tackle
ourselves, even among friends, such as the relative definitions of victim and
hero. At the same time Mr Nelson is asking us to consider what role art—and
particularly theater—plays in how we assimilate the fears of loss that are
always, on some level with us.”
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“As someone who mostly avoided the
memoralizing and marmoreal-izing of 9/11, I can think of no better tribute to
the dead than this show, with its itchy frustrations with humanity, its deep
sympathy for the same, and its absolute refusal to let itself, or us, off easy.”
Scott Brown, New York Magazine
“Brilliant.”
New Yorker
commissioned by and opened at The Public Theater, New York
3 M, 3 F
I S B N 978-0-88145-518-2
$14.95