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“America the addicted. the United States the numb. the US the struggle weary. the United States the lonely. these kinds of international locations compose the jagged terrain of this viscerally effective new play.”—The Seattle instances

“The absolute best we will desire for is to teach the mess of existence in this kind of manner as to might be wake up our shared skill for embracing it, in all its good looks and terror.”—Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas “can masterfully distill an international of damage and perplexity into advanced kin and unmarried, pithy strains” (The Seattle Times), which is rarely extra obvious than in his most modern play of private and non-private turmoil in today’s the United States. right here we discover the Noone relatives: son Billy returns from Iraq, his pregnant sister Marianne marries Billy’s good friend and previous lover Tad, his mom Karen attempts to maintain her husband Austin from falling off the wagon—all whereas the purple Sox and Yankees conflict for the 2004 pennant. With Prayer for My Enemy, Lucas returns to the darkish territory he has explored with past works, “bringing gentle and craft to formerly unlit corners,” and illuminating the methods he's “one of the yank theater’s most sensible writers” (Variety).

Craig Lucas is a playwright, screenwriter, and director of either theater and picture. His performs comprise Prelude to a Kiss, The demise Gaul, Small Tragedy, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The making a song Forest, and the publication for the Tony Award–winning musical The gentle within the Piazza. he's at present affiliate inventive director on the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.