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The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Oberon Modern Plays)

The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Oberon Modern Plays)

by StephenAdlyGuirgis (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

Love and addiction in New York City. Things are looking up for Jackie. He's out of jail and staying clean thanks to his sponsor. He might even have found a job. And of course there's Veronica, who he's loved since 8th grade. Nothing could come between them - except a hat. Poetic, profane and hilarious, this whip-smart look at love and addiction finds light even in the darkest corners of New York City.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 10 Jun 2015
ISBN 10: 1783198087
ISBN 13: 9781783198085

Media Reviews
'What makes Hat more than just a foul-mouthed, fast-moving farce is that Mr. Guirgis's real subject turns out to be moral relativism. The impeccably sober Ralph D., who has swapped booze for fluorescent-colored nutritional beverages, preaches the gospel of AA with a convert's fervor, yet it doesn't stop him from doing whatever he wants to whomever he wants. Jackie, by contrast, has yet to master his self-destructive impulses, but at least he knows that the point of getting sober is not to become more efficient at taking advantage of other people: Your - whaddyacallit - your world view? It ain't mine. And the day it is, that's the day I shoot myself in the head. I didn't get clean to live like that. ... Don't let the stupid title put you off. If you do, you'll miss one of the best new plays to come to Broadway in ages.' Wall Street Journal; 'The play that dare not speak its name turns out to have a lot to say. Stephen Adly Guirgis's vibrant and surprisingly serious new comedy ... under a title that cannot be printed in most daily newspapers or mentioned on network television. This is vexing for those of us who would like to extol the virtues of The with the Hat, at least in public. (The title also seems to have created problems for the people trying to publicize the play.) This is by far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific and erratic chronicler of marginal lives.' New York Times;
Author Bio
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include: Our Lady of 121st Street (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, Barrymore Award, Olivier Nomination for London's Best New Play), In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings (2007 LA Drama Critics Best Play, Best Writing Award), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (10 Best Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly) and The Little Flower of East Orange, with Ellen Burstyn and Michael Shannon. All five plays were directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and were originally produced by LAByrinth. His most recent play, Between Riverside and Crazy recently completed a sold out run at The Atlantic Theater Company and will transfer to Second Stage Theatre in 2015. His 2011 play, The Motherf***er with the Hat was directed by Anna D. Shapiro and marked his third consecutive world premiere co-production with The Public Theater and LAByrinth. In London, his plays have premiered at The Donmar Warehouse, The Almeida, The Hampstead and at The Arts Theater in the West End. Other plays include Den of Thieves and Dominica The Fat Ugly Ho for the 2006 E.S.T. Marathon. He has received the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award and a TCG fellowship. He is also a New Dramatists Alumnae and a member of MCC's Playwright's Coalition, The Ojai Playwrights Festival, New River Dramatists and LAByrinth Theater Company. He was presented with the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award at the Seventh Annual Steinberg Playwright Mimi Awards, in November 2014, at Lincoln Center Theater.