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"Anarchic and deliciously clever.""The Huffington Post""If the American family drama were a trout (stay with me), playwright Will Eno would gut it, shellac it, mount it on a plaque, and make it wiggle and croon 'Take Me to the River.' What I mean is that his work combines studied banality, sneaky weirdness, and formal ingenuity.""Time Out New York"People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write family plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, "Can things really change?" People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. "The Open House" is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission.Acclaimed playwright Will Eno brings his signature irreverence to this subversive sendup of the archetypal family drama. "The Open House" won the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.Will Eno's most recent plays include "The Open House" (Signature Theatre, New York, 2014; Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play), "Gnit" (Humana Festival of New American Plays, 2013) and "The Realistic Joneses" (Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 2012; Broadway, 2014). His play "Middletown" received the Horton Foote Prize, and "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York.", "Anarchic and deliciously clever."-- Huffington Post "If the American family drama were a trout (stay with me), playwright Will Eno would gut it, shellac it, mount it on a plaque, and make it wiggle and croon 'Take Me to the River.' What I mean is that his work combines studied banality, sneaky weirdness, and formal ingenuity."-- Time Out New York People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write family plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, "Can things really change?" People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. The Open House is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission. Acclaimed playwright Will Eno brings his signature irreverence to this subversive sendup of the archetypal family drama. The Open House won the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. Will Eno 's most recent plays include The Open House (Signature Theatre, New York, 2014; Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play), Gnit (Humana Festival of New American Plays, 2013) and The Realistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 2012; Broadway, 2014). His play Middletown received the Horton Foote Prize, and Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Eno lives in Brooklyn, NY., "Anarchic and deliciously clever."--"The Huffington Post""If the American family drama were a trout (stay with me), playwright Will Eno would gut it, shellac it, mount it on a plaque, and make it wiggle and croon 'Take Me to the River.' What I mean is that his work combines studied banality, sneaky weirdness, and formal ingenuity."--"Time Out New York"People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write family plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, "Can things really change?" People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. "The Open House" is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission.Acclaimed playwright Will Eno brings his signature irreverence to this subversive sendup of the archetypal family drama. "The Open House" won the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.Will Eno's most recent plays include "The Open House" (Signature Theatre, New York, 2014; Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play), "Gnit" (Humana Festival of New American Plays, 2013) and "The Realistic Joneses" (Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 2012; Broadway, 2014). His play "Middletown" received the Horton Foote Prize, and "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Eno lives in Brooklyn, New York., Mr. Eno has established himself as one of the most vital, distinctive voices in the American theater over the past decade. Once encountered, his style is not likely to be forgotten: Wryly humorous and deeply engaged in the odd kinks and quirks of language and its fuzzy relationship to meaning, his plays are also infused with a haunted awareness of, and a sorrowful compassion for, the fundamental solitude of existence. "New York Times" An anarchic and deliciously clever play. "Huffington Post" This wildly funny and subversive take on the archetypal family drama is dense with authentic feeling and pain and it ultimately evolves into something haunted and mysterious and grand, even hopeful. "The Open House" won a Drama Desk Award, the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. It was on the Top Ten Plays of 2014 lists of "TIME" magazine, "Time Out New York" and the "NY Daily News. " Will Eno is the author of "The Realistic Joneses" and "Thom Pain (based on nothing) ," which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Other works include "Middletown, The Flu Season, Tragedy: a tragedy, Intermission" and "Gnit." He is a Residency Five Fellow at Signature Theatre in New York. His many awards include the PEN/Laura Pels Award, the Horton Foote Prize and the first-ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theater Hall of Fame.", People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write family plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, "Can things really change?" People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. The Open House is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission.Acclaimed playwright Will Eno brings his signature irreverence to this subversive sendup of the archetypal family drama. The Open House won the 2014 Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.

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