Blue Surge
A Play
ISBN10: 0571211070
ISBN13: 9780571211074
Trade Paperback
132 Pages
$16.00
CA$22.00
From Rebecca Gilman, whose previous dramatic work (Boy Gets Girl) was acclaimed by Time as the best play of 2000, comes this "dazzling . . . racy [and] smart piece of gritty social realism that's alternately funny and politically provocative" (Chris Jones, Variety).
Curt is a small-town cop in the Midwest; Sandy is the 19-year-old prostitute he first tries to arrest, then attempts to help, at the cost of his badge. What Gilman makes of this familiar scenario is something startlingly real and compelling: Blue Surge delves deeply into the small space that can divide hope from hopelessness, as Curt and Sandy both grasp at the American dream of a house, a job, a life, a relationship with another human being.
Marked by Gilman's characteristically sharp delineation of character, pitch-perfect dialogue, and effortless use of humor both biting and silly, Blue Surge is an intimate look at the class struggle in America today as well as a brilliant example of the dramatic craft from one of today's most accomplished practitioners.
Reviews
Praise for Blue Surge
"[Gilman is a] writer of surprising gifts."—Chicago Tribune
"Exceptionally moving, beautifully written . . . Gilman clearly knows what theater can do at its best."—Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
"Remarkable . . . Gilman is—quite unabashedly—an old-school dramatist, conjuring recognizable characters and situations . . . She does not think theater should be a metaphor for life or a poetic expression of life, but rather that it should be life."—Joanne Kaufman, New York