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description: Wickedly clever. . . . Ruhl's unique breezily elegant dialogue is fully present as is her pleasingly loopy logic.VarietyIn the smart rollicking Stage Kiss . . . passion and fidelity engage in a kind of elegant pas de deux. . . . The play manages to be both wholly original and instantly recognizable . . . with its combination of hilarity and trenchancy.John Lahr The New YorkerAward-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl brings her unique mix of lyricism sparkling humor and fierce intelligence to her new romantic comedy Stage Kiss. When estranged lovers He and She are thrown together as romantic leads in a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama the line between off-stage and on-stage begins to blur. A knockabout farce that channels Nol Coward and Michael Frayn (Chicago Tribune) Stage Kiss is a thoughtful and clever examination of the difference between youthful lust and respectful love. Ruhl one of America's most frequently produced playwrights proves that a kiss is not just a kiss in this whirlwind romantic comedy.Sarah Ruhl's other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and The Clean House as well as Passion Play Dean Man's Cell Phone Demeter in the City Eurydice Melancholy Play and Late: a cowboy song. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award a PEN/Laura Pels Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her plays have premiered on Broadway off-Broadway and in many theaters around the world.
language: English
title: Stage Kiss
publisher: Theatre Communications Group