Serenading Louie
By (Author) Lanford Wilson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Modern Plays
1st February 2010
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
812.54
Paperback
96
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
Lanford Wilsons play is a portrait of two suburban American couples exploring the destruction of their dreams and the loss of passion and purpose. The play centres on Carl and Alex, friends since college, who are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their 30s. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they are desperately trying to make sense of it all.
Lanford Wilson, a leading US playwright considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of the Off-off Broadway. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, Wilson is a leading figure in American literature and drama exemplified by his 2001 election to the US Theatre Hall of Fame.