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Body Awareness
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978-0-573-66310-9

Annie Baker

Dramatic Comedy

2m, 2f

Interior and Areas

Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award Nominee

It's "Body Awareness" week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home, Frank, a painter famous for his female nude portraits. Both his presence in the home and his chosen subject instigate tension from the start. Phyllis is furious at his depictions, but Joyce is actually rather intrigued by the whole thing, even going so far as to contemplate posing for him. As Joyce and Phyllis bicker, Joyce's adult son, who may or may not have Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to express himself physically with heartbreaking results.

" An engaging new comedy by a young playwright with a probing, understated voice. [...] Its quiet rewards steal up on you." -The New York Times

“Sexuality’s endless capacity to make us miserable is the keynote of Annie Baker’s gentle satire, which takes just four actors and 90 minutes to spin an astonishingly complex web of emotions and ideas...Body Awareness is a smart, modest work about ordinary, flawed people, grasping for connection, but none of it feels small, thanks to Baker’s sharp ear for the deeply painful—and funny—longings squirming under her characters’ dialogue. What a beautiful start to a young playwright’s theatrical body of work.” - David Cote, Time Out New York

“An impressive and occasionally beautiful meditation on the mysteries of being moved.” - The New Yorker

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Character descriptions:
JOYCE - 55
JARED - 21, her son
PHYLLIS - 45, her girlfriend
FRANK BONITATIBUS - 59

About the Author
Annie Baker's plays have been developed and performed at the Soho Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, the Ontological-Hysteric, the Magic Theatre (New Voices West), the Brick, EST, and the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She is the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Grant for screenwriting and a Michener Fellowship in playwriting. She graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of the 06/07 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Her play Body Awareness was produced by the Atlantic Theater Company in May/June 2008.

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