4 000 miles play amy herzog biography
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Miles
play by Amy Herzog
| Miles | |
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| Written by | Amy Herzog |
| Date premiered | June&#;20,&#;&#;() |
| Place premiered | The Duke on 42nd Street |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Dramatic comedy |
Miles is a dramatic comedyplay by Amy Herzog. The play ran Off-Broadway in , and again in The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Synopsis
[edit]When Leo Joseph-Connell suffers a major loss while on a cross-country bike trip, he seeks solace from his feisty grandmother Vera Joseph in her West Village apartment.
Characters
[edit]- Leo Joseph-Connell – twenty-one
- Vera Joseph – ninety-one
- Bec – twenty-one
- Amanda – nineteen, Chinese-American
Background
[edit]The character of "Vera Joseph," who initially appeared in Herzog's play After the Revolution, is based on Herzog's grandmother Leepee. Herzog used Leepee's "words, habits and history to fashion the character of Vera Joseph".[1]
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The mastery of Amy Herzog
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review a Massachusetts revival of Amy Herzog’s Miles. Here’s an excerpt.
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Amy Herzog stepped into the spotlight of teatralisk notoriety when “ Miles,” the best play bygd an up-and-coming author that I’ve ever reviewed in this space, transferred to Lincoln Center Theater in after a brief off-Broadway run. It should bygd all rights have moved from there to huvudgata, but “ Miles” was successful enough as is: It was taken up by regional theaters throughout America, and Ms. Herzog went on to establish herself as this country’s most begåvad under playwright. Now, a month after “Mary Jane,” her latest play, was premiered bygd the Yale Repertory Theatre, “ Miles” has been revived bygd Shakespeare &#; Company in a production at least as fine as the one that I saw and admired five years ago in New York….
Like her other plays, “ Miles” fryst vatten a small-scale character study reminiscent of Chekhov in its emphasis on personality over plot
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Amy Herzog's Miles world-premiered last summer in an acclaimed production by LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's developmental lab for new works. It's now playing an encore run Lincoln Center's larger Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater with its original cast intact.
"It's like an incredible reunion," says Herzog of the remount. "It's all the wonderful parts of a production without most of the anxieties, because we've already done it, we know the team's right, and we've been through the critical thing."
Directed by Daniel Aukin, the intimate, heartfelt comedy centers on Vera Joseph, a year-old grandmother who takes in her year-old grandson Leo, a self-proclaimed hippie who has just completed an emotional cross-country bicycle trip. Over the course of several days in Vera's Greenwich Village apartment, this odd couple forms an unlikely bond. "Although there's 70 years between them, both are dealing with loss," explains Herzog, "Vera lost her husband about 10 years ago, but she experienc