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Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
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Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
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Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
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"The play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded."
Gathering around a table at the Talk House, an old haunt, a group of friends and theatre artists reunite after ten years to reminisce and catch-up on each other's lives. At first, the conversation is fairly run-of-the-mill: current TV shows and where their careers have taken them. Eventually, the discussion's tone takes a turn when they mention supplementing their incomes through the government-led program to enlist unemployed artists for drone strikes and carrying out violent attacks on foreign land. As is typical of Shawn's plays, the premise at once amuses and unsettles, forcing the viewer to wonder whether being too idle makes all of us complicit in the world's ongoing destruction.
is a noted actor and writer. His often politically-charged and controversial plays include
,
, and
. With Andre´ Gregory, he co-wrote
, in which he also starred. He adapted the classic Ibsen play
for film.