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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;America the addicted. America the numb. America the war weary. America the lonely. All these countries compose the jagged terrain of this viscerally potent new play.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003eThe Seattle Times \u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;The very best we can hope for is to show the mess of life in such a way as to perhaps awaken our shared capacity for embracing it, in all its beauty and terror.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;Craig Lucas\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraig Lucas \u0026ldquo;can masterfully distill a world of hurt and perplexity into complicated relations and single, pithy lines\u0026rdquo; (\u003cI\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c/I\u003e), which is never more evident than in his latest play of public and private turmoil in today\u0026rsquo;s America. Here we find the Noone family: son Billy returns from Iraq, his pregnant sister Marianne marries Billy\u0026rsquo;s friend and former lover Tad, his mother Karen tries to keep her husband Austin from falling off the wagon\u0026mdash;all while the Red Sox and Yankees battle for the 2004 pennant. With \u003cI\u003ePrayer for My Enemy\u003c/I\u003e, Lucas returns to the dark territory he has explored with earlier works, \u0026ldquo;bringing light and craft to previously unlit corners,\u0026rdquo; and illuminating the ways he is \u0026ldquo;one of the American theater\u0026rsquo;s best writers\u0026rdquo; (\u003cI\u003eVariety\u003c/I\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eCraig Lucas\u003c/B\u003e is a playwright, screenwriter, and director of both theater and film. His plays include \u003cI\u003ePrelude to a Kiss\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eThe Dying Gaul\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eSmall Tragedy\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eBlue Window\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eGod\u0026rsquo;s Heart\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eThe Singing Forest\u003c/I\u003e, and the book for the Tony Award\u0026ndash;winning musical \u003cI\u003eThe Light in the Piazza\u003c/I\u003e. He is currently associate artistic director at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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