100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and TheaterOne hundred incisive, idiosyncratic essays on life and theater from a major American playwright Don't send your characters to reform school pleads Sarah Ruhl in one of her essays. With titles as varied as On lice, On sleeping in theaters, and Motherhood and stools (the furniture kind), these essays are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between. The pieces combine admonition, celebration,

One hundred incisive, idiosyncratic essays on life and theater from a major American playwright

Don't send your characters to reform school pleads Sarah Ruhl in one of her essays. With titles as varied as On lice, On sleeping in theaters, and Motherhood and stools (the furniture kind), these essays are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between. The pieces combine admonition, celebration, inquiry, jokes, assignments, entreaties, prayers, and advice: honest reflections distilled from years of working in the theater. They offer candid accounts of what it is like to be a mother and an artist, along with descriptions of how Ruhl's children's dreams, jokes, and songs work themselves into her writing.

100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is not just a book about the theater. It is a map of a very particular artistic sensibility and a guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/15/2015
ISBN: 9780374535674
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/29/2015 pg. 24