Dying City

The finest new American play Ive seen in a long while . . . <strong>Dying City</strong>is a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller calle... » 

The finest new American play Ive seen in a long while . . . Dying Cityis a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller called thepolitics of the soul. Its about public conscience and private grief and realand symbolic catastrophes.The New York ObserverAnyone who doubts thatMr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrightstoday need only experience the . . . sophisticated welding of form and contentthat is Dying City.The New York TimesIn Christopher Shinns new playDying City a young therapist Kelly whose husband Craig was killed while onmilitary duty in Iraq is confronted a year later by his identical twin Peterwho suspects that Craigs death was not accidental. Set in a spare downtownManhattan apartment after dark scenes shift from the confrontation betweenPeter and Kelly to Kellys complicated farewell with her husband Craig.Shinns creepy sophisticated dramainfused with references to 911 and the warin Iraqexplores how contemporary politics and recent history have transformedthe lives of these three characters.Christopher Shinn was born in HartfordConnecticut and lives in New York. His plays include Where Do We LiveOther People What Didnt Happen and On the Mountain which have beenwidely produced in New York across the United States and in London. He is therecipient of an OBIE Award in Playwriting as well as the Robert S. ChesneyAward. He teaches playwriting at The New School for Drama. «