An insightful and revealing play, inspired by real events, which explores society's uncomfortable embrace of the outsider.

It's Gabe's senior year and he's going to make the most of it. He's the chair of the LGBTQ Students Group, and he has one eye on a future in politics and one eye on Drew, the editor of the university newspaper.

But as Gabe and his friends throw themselves into campus life, unexpected events reveal a darker, lonelier world inhabited by a freshman called Teddy Ferrara.

Christopher Shinn's play Teddy Ferrara had its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2015, in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.

About the Author

Christopher Shinn is an American playwright. Several of his plays have been premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London: Four, Other People, Where Do We Live (Obie Award), Dying City (Pulitzer Prize finalist), and Now or Later, which was directed by Dominic Cooke and shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. Other plays include Teddy Ferrara (UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, 2015), What Didn't Happen, On the Mountain, and The Coming World. His adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway in 2009 in a production directed by Ian Rickson. A Guggenheim fellow, he teaches playwriting at the New School for Drama.

Reviews

'A brave, gripping, provocative play'

* Observer *

'Clever and salutary... Shinn's play really does sound alarm bells'

* WhatsOnStage *

'Shinn's play has a passionate sincerity and demolishes the myth that we live in a cosy new world of sexual tolerance'

* Guardian *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848425293
Author Christopher Shinn
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books