The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues

<p>A lapsed academic haunted by her past and by an ambiguous angel in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In these and other monologues selected from over two decades of work award-winning American playwright Dan O'Brien illuminates in heartbreaking and unwavering fashion the humanity of lost souls longing to be heard.</p> <div> <p>Dan O'Brien is a playwright-poet who like a mash-up of Seamus Heaney and Dashiel Hammett puts the audience in the middle of an unfolding mystery promising both revelation and terror and delivering an equal measure of both. Robert Schenkkan</p> <p> </p> <p style=font-weight: 400;>O'Brien is an outstanding wordsmith and a sharp observer of character. <em>Variety</em></p> <p style=font-weight: 400;> </p> <p style=font-weight: 400;>emotionally gripping psychologically astute...a bracing and absorbing piece of theater. <em>New York Times</em> (Critics' Pick) on <em>The Body of an American</em></p> <p style=font-weight: 400;><em><br /> </em>A masterpiece of truthfulness and feeling<em> The Guardian </em>on<em> War Reporter</em> </p> <p style=font-weight: 400;> </p> <p style=font-weight: 400;>utterly riveting...frequently exhilarating <em>The Washington Post </em>on <em>The Body of an American</em></p> </div>