The Substance of Fire - Couverture souple

Baitz, Jon Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573692939 ISBN 13 : 9780573692932

Editeur : Samuel French, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Full Length, Drama

Characters: 3 male, 2 female

2 Interior Sets

Isaac Geldhart, the imperious scion of a family owned publishing house, is under siege. A takeover is being engineered by his son Aaron, who sees the firm's profitability steadily declining and wants to publish a trashy novel to bring in the bucks. Isaac plans to go on publishing scholarly works such as a multi volume history of Nazi medical experiments. Aaron has the necessary yen from Japanese backers but he ne

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Many of the greatest American plays of the 20th century have examined dysfunctional families under pressure. Add the American obsession with business and you have the preoccupation of The Substance of Fire, an award-winning 1990 off-Broadway drama. In Jon Robin Baitz's screenplay, the conflict between a father and his three grown children for control of the family publishing business has only grown sharper. The patriarch, Isaac, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, would rather see the company founder while publishing worthy books, than to prosper publishing slick junk. His three grown children, on whom he has lavished, Lear-like, enough stock to control his little kingdom, want the company to become a thriving concern, and feel Dad's standards are absurdly rigid. The question is not so much who will win control of the company, but on what terms and whether any such battle ever truly has an emotional victory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573692939
• ISBN 13: 9780573692932
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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