Sex Plays

"A born storyteller with perfect pitch."--"The New York Times"

"Greatly and bilaterally talented . . . spiky, stinging, caustic without cauterizing. And funny."--"New York"

One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists offers his two newest plays: "Skunkweed" details the culture clash between a Los Angeles screenwriter and a working-class girl and her rural Florida clan in a hotel room, and "1+1" explores desire, greed, and responsibility to others through the lives of an aspiring actress, assistant restaurant manager, and a photographer. About the characters in "1+1," Eric Bogosian recently stated, "Bri, Phil, and Carl are based on people I've found intensely interesting my whole life: a good-looking hustler, an ambitious pretty girl, and a 'good guy' who always seems to finish last. . . . The story is a parable. All my plays are. My plays are not expositions of a specific time and place. Rather, I try to find a way to set them so that the audience can immerse itself in a situation. I don't have answers. I have questions."

Eric Bogosian is a writer and actor who has authored five full-length plays and created six full-length solos for himself, including "Talk Radio"; "subUrbia"; "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll"; "Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead"; and "Drinking in America." He is the recipient of three OBIE Awards and a Drama Desk Award, and has toured throughout the United States and Europe.