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Harry Thaw Hates Everybody
[29719]

$8.95

NOT YET PUBLISHED

ISBN 978-0-573-60065-4

Laural Meade

Dramatic Comedy with music

2m, 2f

Winner! Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle award for Best Writing

Harry Thaw Hates Everybody is a genre-bending, high-speed, turn-of-the-century romp in four acts – each in a different theatrical style: vaudeville, living newspaper, courtroom farce and post-modern collage. Set against a backdrop of gilded-age opulence and accompanied by authentic period songs, the play takes as its starting point the real-life 1906 murder of New York’s architectural eminence Stanford White at the hands of deranged coal baron Harry Thaw, his rival for the affections of Broadway super-soubrette Evelyn Nesbit.

Using an eclectic mix of American pomp splashed with turn-of-the-century burlesque theatrics, Harry Thaw serves up a comedic tour de force for four great performers and a darkly whimsical look at the clash between hedonism and poverty, the emotional toll of romantic excess, and murderous revenge a la high society.

“One of the 10 best plays of the year. Writer-director Laural Meade's inspired explosion of history, the underside of Ragtime.” –The Los Angeles Times.

“A provocative new work… A must-see, with its savage mirth and social rage…The decision to slice the play into four distinct styles elevates it structurally into a work of epistemology – a saga calling in to question not only the motives for the killing, but the shifting frame of truth itself…” –LA Weekly.

“How to describe this racy, rip-roarin’ new review? Unique, hilarious, heady warped fun? Captivatingly crazy? Unconventional? There’s something about Harry that goes beyond mere adjectives... fun galore!” –Back Stage West.

“Good as Gild! …Harry Thaw shows you how to party like it’s just after 1899!” –Los Angeles Downtown News

FEE: $75 per performance

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