num_pages: 242
description: Rajiv Joseph is one of today's most acclaimed young playwrights. The winner of numerous awards including an NEA Award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award he is an artist to watch. This volume gathers together for the first time his three major plays to date.Included herein are his latest play Gruesome Playground Injuries which charts the intersection of two lives using scars wounds and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another's love and the cumulative effect of such damage; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo a philosophical and existential investigation into the Iraq War (Los Angeles Times) a darkly comedic drama that looks on as the lives of two American soldiers an Iraqi translator and a tiger intersect on the streets of Baghdad; and Animals Out of Paper a subtle elegant yet bracing examination of the artistic impulse and those in its thrall. The play follows a world-famous origamist as she becomes the unwitting mentor to a troubled young prodigy even as she must deal with her own loss of inspiration.
language: English
title: Three Plays: Gruesome Playground Injuries / Animals Out of Paper / Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
publisher: Soft Skull Press