La Bête and Wrong Mountain
Subtitle: Two Plays by David Hirson
Contributors: Hirson, David.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Street entertainers -- Drama.; Playwriting -- Drama.; Theater -- Drama.; Actors -- Drama.; Poets -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Wrong mountain.
Description: "Here, collected for the first time, are David Hirson's audacious, famously controversial plays, La Bete and Wrong Mountain. Hirson stunned Broadway with these wickedly subversive, dazzlingly literate works, marking him as a thrillingly unique and innovative talent in the vanguard of contemporary American dramatists.".

"Written entirely in rhyming couplets, La Bete is a quicksilver tragicomedy of language in which a crisis befalling an imagined seventeenth-century acting troupe provides the basis for a relentlessly deepening Chinese box of opinions about life and art.".

"In the wildly inventive Wrong Mountain, Henry Dennett, an obscure yet imperious poet who expresses disdain for contemporary theater, writes a play on a bet and achieves the acclaim that has always eluded him, forcing him to confront questions about identity, aesthetics, and the American definition of success."--BOOK JACKET.