Three Plays by Terrence Mcnally

Terrence McNally is one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest.The New Yorker These three stunning plays are a testament to the extraordinary talent and comedic brilliance of Terrence McNally. All produced off-Broadway to great acclaim his most recent works are gathered here for the first time in a unique collection of drama romance and comedy. The Lisbon Traviata is a powerfully moving tragicomedy about a crumbling homosexual marriage. And in Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune a man and a woman not young not old no great beauties either one come together in a fresh and witty display of emotional fireworks. McNally himself describes the final piece the bitingly honest and uproariously funny Its Only a Play as his attempt to describe exactly what I was like to work in Broadway in the 1980s. These three unforgettable works starkly individual yet all charged with brilliant wit and searing intimacy dazzle us with McNallys wisdom compassion and extraordinary brand of comic genius.