Description: This volume contains three plays by this Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: "Interrogating the Nude,"" Watbanaland," and the Obie Award-winning "Quills."
Brief description: Doug Wright's Quills received the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and a 1995 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. Wright also wrote the screenplay adaptation of Quills, making his motion picture debut. The film was named Best Picture by the National Board of Review and was also nominated for three Oscars. Some of Wright's other plays include Interrogating the Nude, Watbanaland, The Stonewater Rapture, Dinosaurs, and a musical, Buzzsaw Berkeley, which features songs by Michael John LaChiusa. Wright has a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an M.F.A. from NYU. A member of the Dramatists Guild and the New York Theater Workshop, he has taught playwriting at NYU and Princeton University.
Review Quotes:
"A delicious mix of comedy, sex and mystery." --Janice Page, Providence Journal, on Interrogating the Nude
"Creepy, powerful and densely poetic." --Lloyd Rose, The Washington Post, on Watbanaland "Cunningly structured and gorgeously written, with every phrase turned to a high gleaming polish . . . Superb." --Michael Feingold, The Village Voice, on Quills "All Wright's plays burst with an outrageous and quirky imagination." --Francine Russo, The Village Voice "Wright's 1995 play Quills seems like a prescient attack on the hypocritical censoriousness of the right [and works] equally well as a condemnation of left-wing proscriptions of speech . . . Brilliant." --Ed Siegel, Boston Globe