After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . .
Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed
people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their
consciences.--Variety
A funny, moving new play . . . 4000 Miles is a quiet meditation on
mortality. But it's hardly a downer: Ms. Herzog's altogether wonderful
drama also illuminates how companionship can make life meaningful,
moment by moment, in death's discomforting shadow.--The New York Times
Known for delicately detailed character studies that subtly balance
humor and insight, Amy Herzog is swiftly emerging as a striking new
voice in the American theater. After the Revolution, an astute and
ironic drama about how society appropriates history for its own
psychological needs, was heralded by The New York Times as one of the
Ten Best New Plays of 2010. Herzog's other critical hit, 4000 Miles,
is a quiet rumination on mortality in which twenty-one-year-old Leo
seeks solace from his feisty ninety-one-year-old grandmother Vera in her
New York apartment.
Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008
Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays have been
produced or developed at the Yale School of Drama, Ensemble Studio
Theater, Arena Stage, Lincoln Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New
York Stage and Film, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco.
Her newest play, Belleville, premiered at Yale Rep in fall 2011.
