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House Of Several Stories
Genre: Dark Comedy
Characters: 2m, 3f
Scenery: Interior
Bastian returns home for Thanksgiving with news of "joining the service." Mother suggests he join a gym. Bastian's news takes a backseat when his sister, Rissa, suddenly decides that she's pregnant, and though not yet showing, expects to deliver "any minute now". Both children are then bombarded with Mother's news of an older brother that they've never known about, Thom, who has returned home for Thanksgiving from the
Characters: 2m, 3f
Scenery: Interior
Bastian returns home for Thanksgiving with news of "joining the service." Mother suggests he join a gym. Bastian's news takes a backseat when his sister, Rissa, suddenly decides that she's pregnant, and though not yet showing, expects to deliver "any minute now". Both children are then bombarded with Mother's news of an older brother that they've never known about, Thom, who has returned home for Thanksgiving from the
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90 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
A. John Boulanger
1 book6 followersA. John Boulanger is a Texas-native, NYC-based playwright/director.
His debut play, HOUSE OF SEVERAL STORIES, has been recognized locally and nationally, winning the Michael Kanin National Student Playwriting Award (2009) and the David Mark Cohen Best New Play Award (2010). HOSS was produced at the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival, and Imagine That's Austin production was listed on three Top Lists of 2009 by The Austin Chronicle and The Austin-American Statesman.
His work has been developed by Troupe Texas and Imagine That (Austin), Working Man’s Clothes (NYC) and also performed as part of The Chance Theatre’s On-The-Radar Series (LA). His plays HERE'S TO YOU and A WRITER'S VISION(S) delighted audiences at FronteraFest International Play Festival, with the latter garnering Best of Fest in 2011.
Boulanger has also received directing honors from The William Inge Center for the Arts, a two-week observership to the Sundance Theatre Lab, and was the national winner at the Phi Rho Pi National Forensics Competition for Dramatic Duo Acting.
Boulanger currently resides in Astoria, NY, working on his new plays IT'S NOT ME and SOME DAYS, and collaborating on a film adaptation of HOSS.
His debut play, HOUSE OF SEVERAL STORIES, has been recognized locally and nationally, winning the Michael Kanin National Student Playwriting Award (2009) and the David Mark Cohen Best New Play Award (2010). HOSS was produced at the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival, and Imagine That's Austin production was listed on three Top Lists of 2009 by The Austin Chronicle and The Austin-American Statesman.
His work has been developed by Troupe Texas and Imagine That (Austin), Working Man’s Clothes (NYC) and also performed as part of The Chance Theatre’s On-The-Radar Series (LA). His plays HERE'S TO YOU and A WRITER'S VISION(S) delighted audiences at FronteraFest International Play Festival, with the latter garnering Best of Fest in 2011.
Boulanger has also received directing honors from The William Inge Center for the Arts, a two-week observership to the Sundance Theatre Lab, and was the national winner at the Phi Rho Pi National Forensics Competition for Dramatic Duo Acting.
Boulanger currently resides in Astoria, NY, working on his new plays IT'S NOT ME and SOME DAYS, and collaborating on a film adaptation of HOSS.
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April 26, 2015
This is an amazing play! I have read it and have been lucky enough to see two different productions of it. It is clever, well written and full of surprises. The characters are full and rich. It takes you on an emotional ride.
October 11, 2012
I had the pleasure of seeing this show in its first run, and again when it was restaged with Lauren Lane the next year. It simply defies categorization. The subtitle, "a tragedy in two acts of nonsense," is about as close as you can get to a summary. From the moment it starts, you know something is off. And as if to emphasize it, Bastian's opening monologue is abruptly cut off by his mother before he can really begin it. From there we go into a confusing but enthralling snarl of circumstances, histories, desires and fears that never let up. You will have questions at the end, but you will enjoy thinking about their answers (if anything in this play can really have an answer).
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