Day Room
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- ISBN 9780330374293
- Weight: 132g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 1999
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold – in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour – our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric patients playing doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein?
Described by the Boston Globe on its first performance as ‘an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny’, The Day Room displays Don DeLillo’s extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights.
Don DeLillo is the author of award-winning novels and several plays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Jerusalem Prize, along with many other awards and honours. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the recipient of the Academy's William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld.
His plays include The Day Room, Love-Lies-Bleeding, Valparaiso and The Word For Snow.
