Thom Pain (based on nothing)

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Author: Will Eno

ISBN-10: 0822220768

ISBN-13: 9780822220763

Category: American Literature Anthologies

“Astonishing in its impact. . . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life’s...

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"Will Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart Generation."--The New York TimesLondon Daily TelegraphIt's hard to imagine more dazzling writing on any stage...Eno is light, rhythmic and meticulous.

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\ NY TimesAstonishing in its impact...It's one of those treasured nights in the theatre—treasured nights anywhere, for that matter—that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the John Stewart generation...To sum up the more or less indescribable: THOM PAIN is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth...a small masterpiece.\ \ \ \ \ Time OutEno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure.\ \ \ London Daily TelegraphIt's hard to imagine more dazzling writing on any stage...Eno is light, rhythmic and meticulous.\ \