cover photo by Brad Goda
this
collection contains three full-length plays:
THE GAME OF LIGHT
KRISIT
RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS.
KRISIT:
“There’s not a lot of fat to trim in KRISIT, a satire
on Hollywood…
Skewering the greed, vanity and bloated egos of Hollywood types is an easy
target that has been done more times than Krisit’s crow’s-feet. But York’s
script has plenty of clever quips…”
Robert Dominguez, Daily News
originally produced at Primary Stages, New York
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RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS.:
“In Y York’s futuristic comedy RAIN. SOME FISH. NO
ELEPHANTS., genetic engineering has produced a submissive nation of clones and
drones. Everything is gene coded so all individuality can be obliterated, except
for one stubbornly old-fashioned family trying to thaw the perpetual nuclear
winter. That winter is actually an endless floodlike rainy season.
The play…begins as a kind of science-fiction variation on YOU CAN’T TAKE IT
WITH YOU with a wildly eccentric family resolutely staying out of the
mainstream. In this case, the father is a crank who has quit his scientific post
in a dehumanizing laboratory to go fishing. He neglects his suicidal wife and
their two very odd daughters.
The catalyst for renewal is a black man, cloned to be a member of a faceless
servant class. Removed from his diet of ‘stoppers’, pills that deny
incentive, he becomes a rebel. As conceived by York…he is an engaging figure,
awakening to his personality as well as to his racial identity.
…[Y York] has created a thought provoking comic parable about mankind’s
indominability. As much as anything, the play is concerned with the survival of
history itself…”
Mel Gussow, The New York Times
originally produced by Horizon Theater Company, Atlanta
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Plays By Y York, Volume Two
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