Stone Cold Dead Serious

A collection of plays from Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp one of the more daring young stylists working today (Time Out New York)Adam Rapp''s plays have captivated audiences across the country with their unflinching explorations of the good the bad and the ugly in America''s heartland and cities. Gathered here are three of his works: Faster in which two young grifters try to strike a deal with the devil during the hottest summer on record; Finer Noble Gases a lament for a band of arrested thirty-year-olds slouching toward adulthood amid East Village decay; and the Off-Broadway hit Stone Cold Dead Serious. An honest strange and humorous look at a blue-collar family struggling to survive in the face of disability and addiction and the seemingly surreal lengths their teenage son will go to save them from themselves.Rapp is very gifted and even rarer he has something to say . . . Stone Cold Dead Serious [is] brave compassionate and . . . breathtakingly moving. -(New York Times)