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Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish: 1906

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 2m

Wild Nights! has been called by Fantastic Fiction "Joyce Carol Oates' most original and haunting work of the imagination" and by the Washington Post "imaginative, impressive work that spotlights another side of Oates's tale…

Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish: 1906

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    2w, 2m

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Wild Nights! is a matched duo of plays about Emily Dickinson and Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain—adapted from a prose work described by the New York Times as "morality tales about sexual power" that "ingeniously" imagine the last days of classic American writers whose true, private lives are unknown to the public.
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    • Strong Language
    • Mild Adult Themes

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"Wild Nights! has been called by Fantastic Fiction "Joyce Carol Oates' most original and haunting work of the imagination" and by the Washington Post "imaginative, impressive work that spotlights another side of Oates's talent."

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates grew up in the countryside outside of Lockport, New York, where she attended a one-room schoolhouse in the elementary grades. As a small child, she told stories instinctively by way of drawing and painting before learning how to write. After receiving the gi ...

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