cover photo by Patricia Brady
this collection includes three full-length plays:
TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY
TWO BEARS BLINKING
KORCZAK'S CHILDREN
TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY:
"...Though TO GILLIAN begins as a simple
dramatization of its hero's obsessive mourning, it gradually expands to become a
richer form of family drama.... Mr Brady...writes with a rueful sophistication
that keeps his story's sentimentality at bay....TO GILLIAN is peppered with
sharp, evenhanded observations about the tenuous ties that connect husbands and
wives and parents and children. ...if TO GILLIAN is a play that sends a ghost
flying out of [the] heavens, its appeal derives from its author's keen
sensitivity to life down here on earth."
Frank Rich, The New York Times
"This first major work by Michael Brady has
well-dimensioned characters, solid conflict, piquant writing and gives off a
warm, affirmative glow....When it has become not uncommon to encounter plays
with no sympathetic characters, audiences will respond affectionately to
everyone In GILLIAN. Working on a small canvas, the author is in impressive
control of his material...."
Richard Hummler, Variety
TWO BEARS BLINKING:
"A play with a fresh point of view that combines
compassion, a sense of humor, and emotional honesty, with complex, articulate
characters who merit sympathy and attention."
Miami Herald
"A memory play—mysterious and poetic."
Miami Backstage
KORCZAK'S CHILDREN:
"KORCZAK'S CHILDREN draws its drama from the reality
of the Warsaw Ghetto—honest, relentless and heartbreaking."
Will Sonzski, Boston College Biweekly
"Within every great tragedy there are small
tragedies. And because they are simpler to grasp, the numbers more manageable,
small tragedies wring our souls more painfully than the large. KORCZAK'S
CHILDREN is a wrenching story dramatically told."
James Brady, Advertising Age
PLAYS BY MICHAEL BRADY
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