cover photo by Peter Cunningham
this collection contains three full-length plays:
CLEAN
FLOOR SHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG
TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS
CLEAN:
“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
originally produced by Hartford Stage
5 M, 1 F
FLOOR SHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG:
Reality and fantasy collide as a son—just out of a mental institution—and his mother—a former hooker, now a fortune teller—battle for the truth regarding the death of a daughter who may never have existed.
originally produced by Latino Chicago
4 M, 4 F
TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS:
“Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a
promising New York debut with TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS, a
grim, streetwise and bracingly compassionate work....
...he convinces with the honesty of his
writing and a canny, thoughtful grasp of his trio of characters.
The playwright does an especially effective job in penning the gray
shades of his characters....”
Greg Evans, Variety
originally produced by the Atlantic Theater Company, New York
3 M
PLAYS BY EDWIN SANCHEZ
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