Exquisite Agony
24 Sep 2020Size: 215mm x 135mm£18.99
Exquisite Agony
Paperback £18.99
A play about the heart—its passions, its failures, and its ability to connect.
After Millie’s husband, Lorenzo, dies in a car crash, his heart is used to save a young man’s life. Unable to let go of this final living piece of her husband, Millie reaches out to the transplant recipient, Amér, with the hope that some part of the heart still carries Lorenzo’s memories.
As Amér ponders the ways in which this new heart is transforming him, he becomes entangled in the lives of Millie and her family, trapped by longings and obsessions that are not his own.
'Beautifully strange… a play about the human heart: its fumblings and yearnings, its bruises and scars, its generosity and viciousness'
New York Times'Cruz’s feminist view is one of the liberating aspects of his writing, as is a kind of magical realism that is not cloying but true to his characters, and to the fact of dispossession: sometimes we don’t know who we are because we don’t know where life has landed on our bodies, let alone in our hearts'
New Yorker'Explosive… As in several of Cruz’s previous works, drama ignites from the friction between the banal and the magical'
TheaterMania24 Sep 2020Size: 215mm x 135mm£18.99
