Rapp remains a true man of the theater and a potent writer.--Time Out
To watch The Hallway Trilogy by Adam Rapp is to enter an alternate
universe . . . a carnival of the desperate, the grotesque, the
outrageous.--The New York Times
I knew in a single sentence that Adam was a writer the world was going
to listen to for as long as he felt like writing. . . . Adam writes like
nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that
waits for his characters. The work is bleak and true, his touch that of
a master in the making.--Marsha Norman
Multi-talented artist and provocateur Adam Rapp shocks and disturbs,
weaving themes of love, suffering, and redemption throughout this
alarming yet heartening critical examination of societal change.
Spanning one hundred years in one Lower East Side tenement hallway, this
series of connected plays--Rose, Paraffin, and Nursing--is a dark
and compelling exploration of what binds people together and drives them
apart. Packed with searing dialogue and harrowing narratives, The
Hallway Trilogy bristles with humor and contains some of Rapp's most
sensitive and mature writing (The New York Times).
Adam Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, and an OBIE Award-winning
playwright and director. His plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalist
Red Light Winter, Nocturne, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble
Gases, Essential Self-Defense, and more. He is the author of many
young adult novels such as Punkzilla, The Buffalo Tree, and Under
the Dog, and the writer and director of the film Winter Passing,
starring Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, and Ed Harris.
