Book Description
These two plays are the second of Wellman's award-winning quartet of plays involving, in one way or another, characters who have taken up with or have been highly influenced by birds-particularly crows of the nation of Rational Biped. With wit, humor, nostalgia, and just plain American orneriness, Wellman's second quartet will delight readers and theater-goers alike.Living in Brooklyn, New York, Mac Wellman teaches at Brooklyn College. He has had over 40 plays produced and has won major awards for his work including several Obies, McKnight and Rockerfeller Foundation grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim foundation. His most recent novel is Q's Q, published by Green Integer earlier this year.
Crowtet 2: Second-hand Smoke and the Lesser Magoo FROM THE PUBLISHER
"The two plays of this volume, Second-hand Smoke and The Lesser Magoo, complete Wellman's quartet of plays, Crowtet, all involving, in one way or another, characters who have taken up with or have been highly influenced by birds, particularly crows of the nation of Rational Biped." Both of these plays combine the terror of the workplace with characters who dream of better worlds, and often - with strange consequences - get part of what they wanted. Wellman's combination of wit, humor, nostalgia, and just plain American orneriness reminds the reader of a sort of strange hybrid of Samuel Beckett and H. L. Mencken, of Eugene Ionesco and Jane Bowles - or perhaps one should just say, there is no playwright in the world writing like Mac Wellman.
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