A collection of eleven one- and two-act plays. With hints of Samuel
Beckett, Sam Shepard, Neil LaBute, and Tracy Letts, Scott Caan grapples
with the emotional interiors of people in a fractured world. Whether
writing about actors, lovers, or co-workers, Caan takes on the
complicated tension between what we say and what we feel, how we grapple
with the world publicly and privately, and what that difference says
about us as people.
Caan's training as an actor imbues his words with a sense of play and
the characters he leaves other actors to create within these plays are
deep and open to interpretation. The Performance of Heartbreak and
Other Plays is the introduction of an exciting new voice in American
theater.