Mangus the Motherf*cker and Other Plays - by Murray Mednick (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This volume brings
together recent work by the West Coast master playwright writing in his
signature combination of Beckett and the Beats. Poetic and inspiring, fine
enough to be read as literature, these plays provide everything adventurous
theater-makers need to bedazzle audiences anew. Featuring gems such as Three
Tables, Whatever Happened to Julie Christie, and Mangus the
Motherf*cker, this volume completes the full arc of this important
playwright's career.

Plays include:

• Three Tables
• Two Violins
• Whatever Happened to Julie Christie?
• Death Sky Above a Play
• Hanging Man

Review Quotes

"With a Mednick play,
you feel like you're being invited into the playwright's mind... let go and let
Mednick's words wash over you."

--Anthony Byrnes, KCRW

About the Author

Murray Mednick is the founder of the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and Workshop, where he served as Artistic Director from 1978 through 1995. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939, he was for many years a playwright-in-residence at New York's Theatre Genesis, a seminal group in the development of Off-Off Broadway. He is the recipient of two Rockefeller Foundation grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE, several Bay Area Critics Awards, a 1992 Ovation Lifetime Achievement Award from Theatre LA for outstanding contributions to Los Angeles theater. Mednick was awarded the 2002 Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theater by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and a lifetime achievement award from L.A. Weekly.