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All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays
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All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays Paperback - 1994

by Ives, David

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The 14 short plays collected here introduce readers to one of the most intelligent and anarchically funny playwrights of the last decade and his "utterly delightful one-act plays that percolate with comic brio" (The New York Times.

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  • Title All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays
  • Author Ives, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date November 8, 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # R09O-01370
  • ISBN 9780679759287 / 067975928X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94027357
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

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From the jacket flap

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud."
At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue," "Seven Menus," "Mere Mortals," "English Made Simple," "A Singular Kinda Guy," "Speed-the-Play," "Ancient History," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread."

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"Theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart...Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright." -- Time

About the author

David Ives is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was educated at Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama. He won the 1994 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award for the Primary Stages production of All in the Timing, which was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding play. He is the author of an opera and short stories, and he has written for Hollywood and television.