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About the Book

In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbours, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common thantheir identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their imperfect realities. This contemporary comedy explores how our joys and sorrows - and how we choose to face them - can come to define our lives.

About the Author :
Will Eno lives in Brooklyn. He is the recent recipient of a Residency 5 Fellowship at the Signature Theatre, where his play Title and Deed premiered in May 2012. His play The Realistic Joneses had its world premiere at the Yale Repertory Theater, in April 2012. His play Middletown was a winner of the Horton Foote Award and was produced at the Vineyard Theater in New York and Steppenwolf in Chicago. His play Thom Pain (based on nothing), played at the Edinburgh Festival, the Soho Theatre in London, the DR2 in New York, and in translation around the world. It was also a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has been translated into many Romance languages and several Slavic ones. His other plays include Tragedy: a tragedy and The Flu Season. In 2012 Eno was a joint recipient of the PEN award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career. Praise for Will Eno's writing: Mr. Eno's voice is so assuredly his own, simultaneously delicate and audacious in its measurements of poetry, philosophy and Monty Pythonesque silliness - New York Times He strikes me as being the real thing, a real playwright. He takes every chance. And Will keeps the voice his own: he has an awareness of the human condition I wish more people his age had. - Edward Albee

Review :
Mr. Eno's voice - teases out the poetry in the pedestrian and finds glinting humor in the static that infuses our faltering efforts to communicate, [his voice] is as distinctive as any American playwright's today. Life's terrors make for a teasingly funny yet poignant 90 minutes in The Realistic Joneses, the Broadway opening with which the Brooklyn-based playwright Will Eno hits the big time. Will Eno has his audience eating out of his hand, feeding theatergoers refreshingly tasty dialogue throughout the first scene. Like Samuel Beckett, Will Eno uses the structure of language itself to tell a story. Using the intriguingly offbeat dialogue that is his hallmark - full of non sequiturs and blunt but often contradictory remarks that both evoke natural speech and lend a slightly surreal quality - Eno draws his four characters to each other in ways that - movingly emphasize the ultimate commonality of the human condition. Stuffed with droll wordplay and wry comic observations that hit the mark.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781783191178
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Weight: 91 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1783191171
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Oberon Modern Plays
  • Width: 130 mm


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