Shinn Plays: 1

Other People; The Coming World; Where Do We Live; Dying City

Christopher Shinn

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780713683271
• eBook ISBN: 9781472517326
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

A first volume of four plays from the Amercian playwright whose play Dying City was a critical and popular success at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006. - Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown. The play premièred in March 2000.
- Where Do We Live, set in a post-September 11 world, asks to what extent New York's liberal multicultural society is under threat and how much we should care about the state in which our neighbours live.
- The Coming World moves from Shinn's usual Manhattan environment to the coast of New England, where Dora is persuaded, against her better judgement, to help her ex, Ed, in a desperate attempt to escape from spiralling debt. Produced at the Soho Theatre in 2001.
- Dying City shifts between 2004 and 2005 - the eve of one brother's departure for Iraq and the day that his twin brother visits his now widowed sister-in-law. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2006 to great critical acclaim. The books also features an introduction by the author.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Chronology
• Introduction
• Other People
• The Coming World
• Where Do We Live
• Dying City