“The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green,New York Times
Armed with medicines, feeding tubes, and various medical equipment, Mary Jane is a single mother and indefatigable force when it comes to caring for her young, sick child. A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother,Mary Janedemonstrates the prevailing strength of the human will when fueled by unconditional love.
Amy Herzog's exquisite and deeply moving
Mary Jane...succeeds in dramatizing kindness, attentiveness, honesty, connection.
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 recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and theNew York TimesOutstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and an alumna of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Play Group at Ars Nova and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. She received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
A wrenching tale of everyday heroism that is all the more touching for its total lack of sentimentality. I've never seen a more honest portrayal of the day-to-day demands of caregiving, or a more moving tribute to a mother's love. It might just be Ms. Herzog's best play to date. A new play about a mothers devotion by ló&
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