{"product_id":"stage-kiss-9781559364706","title":"Stage Kiss","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sarah Ruhl\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gift and a rarity: a superb new romantic comedy that's moving, smart and flat-out hilarious... You will have difficulty breathing. \u003ci\u003eStage Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e is that funny.\" -- Jesse Green, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eStage Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e passion and fidelity engage in a kind of elegant pas de deux...At once a knowing send-up of the hazy half-truths of stage naturalism and a meditation on the nature of desire and sexual fantasy, the play manages to be both wholly original and instantly recognizable.\" -- John Lahr, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A knockabout farce that channels Noël Coward and Michael Frayn.\" -- Chris Jones, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wickedly clever... Ruhl's unique, breezily elegant dialogue is fully present.\" -- Steven Oxman, \u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A lively blend of romantic comedy and backstage farce... \u003ci\u003eStage Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of how the artifice of theater can stir real emotions not just for those who create it, but for those who attend it, too.\" -- Charles Isherwood, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen estranged lovers are thrown together as romantic leads in a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama, the line between offstage and onstage begins to blur. Here, Sarah Ruhl, one of America's most widely produced playwrights, brings her unique mix of lyricism, sparkling humor and fierce intelligence to the world of romantic comedy. The play asks us to consider what is real, both in love and in art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Ruhl\u003c\/b\u003e's plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists \u003ci\u003eIn the Next Room or the vibrator play\u003c\/i\u003e (Tony Award nominee, Best Play) and \u003ci\u003eThe Clean House\u003c\/i\u003e (Susan Smith Blackburn Award), as well as \u003ci\u003ePassion Play, a cycle\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDead Man's Cell Phone\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDear Elizabeth\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEurydice\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMelancholy Play\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLate: a cowboy song\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN\/Laura Pels Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086486266007,"sku":"9781559364706","price":1116.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781559364706.webp?v=1767142961","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/stage-kiss-9781559364706","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}