"I want theater to wake me up, not lull me to sleep. My theater is not
about fantasy, it's not about seduction. My theater is not an outline
for a film. It is not a TV sitcom onstage. I want my theater to be an
event. I want it to push limits, bite the hand that feeds it and bang
heads. It's about my fears, my ideas, my blind spots, my
isolation."--Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is one of our most singular and exhilarating commentators
on American life. His award-winning solo performance works have been
performed with acclaim all over the world. As the New York Times has
pointed out, "Bogosian is a born storyteller with perfect pitch." That
is never more evident than in his newest book, which collects his three
most recent plays.
In Humpty Dumpty, five friends gather for a holiday at a mountain
getaway where unforeseen events bring them to the brink of the end of
the world. Griller is set in a New Jersey backyard, where a barbecue
gathering turns sinister and deadly. Red Angel is Bogosian's riff on
Von Sternberg's The Blue Angel, reset on a college campus in 1990s New
England.
One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative
artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln
Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater,
1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My
Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and
Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and
Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival,
1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988).
He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most
recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the
long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG
published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty
years of Bogosian's solo-performance career.
