It's a hard luck life: a tell-all memoir about one playwright's wholly unromantic career spouts fear and loathing.(New Books - Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life (And Has Been Killing Me Ever Since))(Book Review)
American Theatre, May, 2004 by Mayer, Oliver
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BEST REVENGE: HOW THE THEATER SAVED MY LIFE (AND HAS BEEN KILLING ME EVER SINCE)
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by Stephen Fife, Cune Press, New York. 99 pp, $27.95 cloth/$17.95 paper.
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WHEN I SAY THE WORD "PLAYWRIGHT," who do you see? The cowboy-Apollo Sam Shepard? The hawkishly hand-some Eugene O'Neill? The boyish grin of Tony Kushner? Most modern play-wrights don't cut such romantic figures--even the above-mentioned trio could look pretty ragged during a tough set of previews. In his bilious, funny and frustrating book Best Revenge: How the Theatre Saved My Life ...
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