Belleville [Paperback]

A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller...Bellevilleis among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years. - Charles Isherwood,New York Times

Masterly... Among the new crop of young American playwrights, Herzog is in a class by herself. - Richard Zoglin,Time

Abby and Zack, young American newlyweds, have abandoned a comfortable postgraduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural Parisian neighborhood. But as secrets both minor and monumental are revealed, their fraught relationship begins to unravel.Bellevilleexamines the limits of trust and dependency in a world where love can turn pathological and our most intimate relationships may not be what they seem.

AMY HERZOG’s plays include4,000 Miles(Pulitzer Prize finalist),After the RevolutionandThe Great God Pan. Ms. Herzog is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Whiting Writers’ Award, an Obie Award and the Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights.

Amy Herzog’s original thriller is heartbreaking and hair-raising… one of the most suspenseful plays in years (The New York Times).

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Amy Herzog's plays includeAfter the Revolution(Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Lilly Award);4000 Miles(Lincoln Center Theater, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Obie Award for Best New American Play);The Great God Pan(Playwrights Horizons) andBelleville(Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize). She has received commissions from Yale Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons. She is a relӥ