Teatrophy

Imagine a drunken Samuel Beckett staging Escape from New York as a futuristic romp among the cultural ruins. -- San Francisco Weekly Cries out Ultramodern--and that it delivers with unflinching scrutiny. . . -- San Francisco Bay Guardian A comedy of eros! . . . A restive heart knows no logic or permanence. -- San Francisco Bay Guardian As with Strindberg, Beckett or even Sartre, Carlaftes' message seems to be something we intuit, like music. -- San Francisco Weekly The three joyously absurd plays in Peter Carlaftes' new collection Teatrophy won't worry Eugene O'Neill, but Ionesco and Adamov might raise an eyebrow or two. And Kerouac will surely smile. --Israel Horovitz, playwright ( The Indian Takes the Bronx ), director ( My Old Lady ) If Dr. Moreau fused the ungovernable souls of Beckett and Genet, he'd have created ?Peter Carlaftes. These plays read like bomb instructions to blow up the poetic status quo. --Michael Puzzo, playwright ( The Dirty Talk, Lyric is Waiting ) In each play characters speak in a fast-talking, spare language as if the sky is about to fall and flatten them at any moment. And everybody seems to be in a rush knowing that they have a damn good chance to be a goner. Spiked with dark humor, wise-cracks and moments of deep caring it's hard not to appreciate and actually relish the sense of dread in every scene in all three plays. --Richard Vetere, playwright ( Caravaggio )