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ISBN-10: 1559369590
ISBN-13: 9781559369596
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publish Date: 03/12/2019
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H

Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) [Revised Tcg Edition]: With Other Monologues for Theatre

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Overview

“It’s sad, isn’t it? The dead horse of a life we beat, all the wilder, all the harder the deader it gets. On the other hand, there are some nice shops in the area.”

Thom Pain has come to a certain point in his life. Maybe you have too. His entire existence is ordinary; but that ordinariness is a revelation and a wonder and a curiosity. To him at least. He’d better hope so. It’s all he has (except maybe a dictionary and an old love letter).

Comic and disturbing, this provocative monologue charts one man’s anguished journey from shattered childhood dreams and trauma to the tenuous, if guarded, optimism of adulthood, told in dangerous intimacy by a voice loaded with wry humor and deceptive charm.

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"Astonishing in its impact. . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth."– "New York Times"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1559369590
ISBN-13: 9781559369596
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publish Date: 03/12/2019
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H
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