His wit is as venomous as ever, his material even more devastating and
polished than before.--New York Daily News
Bogosian hasn't simply crossed the line of good taste, he has snorted
it.--The Daily Texan
"No, Bogosian isn't angry. He's furious, and perplexed, and neurotic,
and brilliant as ever." -The Boston Globe
Wake Up is Bogosian's meditation on making it to the top of the
ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the
ultimate crash and burn. Once again the author offers a blisteringly
funny and dead-on take of the chaos and alienation of post-modern life
in the U. S. of the year 2000. As Michael Feingold so ably offered in
his Village Voice review--Bogosian is there, watching out for the
downtrodden, ridiculing the arrogant rich, defending battered wives and
neo-hippie hitchhikers and never losing sight of his own capacity for
being classed among the batters and bullies. But his 95 minutes is as
fast and exciting a read as the theatre community offers. In our time,
the stage has almost been what classical thinkers saw it as, a medium
for criticizing life. How perfect that a solo performer should
rediscover its roots, by choosing his own life as the object of his
criticism.
One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative
artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo shows include Talk Radio
(Pulitzer Prize finalist); subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll;
Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, among many others. He
has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most
recently, he created the character Captain Danny Ross on the
long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 100, a collection
of monologues, commemorating thirty years of Bogosian's solo-performance
career, was published by TCG in 2014.
