Three Plays: Back Back Back / Celebrity Row / Outrage

by Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses has been hailed as one of America’s most talented young playwrights since his critically acclaimed Bach at Leipzig debuted in 2005. In this anthology of three new plays, Moses blurs the line between fact and fiction, dramatizing today’s most infamous news stories. In Back Back Back, the pressures of performance and reputation get the best of three professional baseball players when they are forced to reveal their not-so-natural secrets to winning the game. In Celebrity Row, Moses imagines what Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, the 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, and the Latin Kings leader Luis Felipe would have philosophized about when they were inhabitants of the same maximum security prison in Colorado. Finally, in Outrage, the dangerous teacher-disciple relationship calls all of academia into question with the help of none other than Socrates and Bertolt Brecht.

Genres: Plays, Theatre

320 pages, Paperback

First published July 7, 2009

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Celebrity Row was my favourite here. There was a hell of a lot going on in Outrage and Back Back Back was a sort of Take Me Out with a stronger plot thread. But back to the killer Celebrity Row, pun intended. I thought Moses’ dialogue style really lent itself to this piece and the dramatic beats really hit for me.