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A double-volume of plays by acclaimed playwright Will Arbery that explore communities of outsiders who strive to help one another persevere in the face of despair. In thistwo-play volume, acclaimed playwright Will Arbery explores the dynamics within tight-knit communities of outsiders working together to persevere against despair, whether intimate or cosmic. From wildly different angles,CorsicanaandEvanston Salt Costs Climbingboth examine the shape-shifting specters of grief, the pull of desire and dreams, and the universal human need for receiving and giving care.

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Without ignoring the bone-deep sadness of characters confused and stymied by loss, [Corsicana] lets us watch them climb their way out of it--heading toward joy and sharing some in the process... Watching it, I felt it was about who gets to make art, and for whom. Reading it, I felt it was about how becoming 'grown' is, for anyone, a lifelong process of failing upward. Thinking back on it, I feel it was about the way the world tucks beauty inside envelopes of sorrow, and vice versa. --The New York Times on Corsicana [A] mysterious, meandering, and quietly subversive new play... With its embrace of the wonderous and unknown, Corsicana makes one thing clear: It's OK to not have all the answers. --TheaterMania on Corsicana [Arbery] is one of the most exciting playwrights working in the American theatre, stretching the form to new shapes and expanding his voice with each successive play...Corsicana is a contemplative, moving play that's not to be missed. --Exeunt Magazine on Corsicana [Arbery] employs a sense of the hidden, whether as a supernatural presence or as some coincidence that goes beyond the rational. He's rhythmically very free, switching between long stretches of text, realistic talk, and rapid, language-as-sound exchanges. And there's a single drumbeat driving his work: things are bad, the badness is out there, and, sorry to say, the badness is getting closer. --New Yorker on Evanston Salt Costs Climbing In Will Arbery's strange and wonderful play Evanston Salt Costs Climbing...the impending doom of climate change, economic precariousness, and urban decay are not merely abstract concerns. They are dark and stultifying forces that can make even time go out of whack. --Talkin Broadway on Evanston Salt Costs Climbing The show interweaves segments of laugh-out-loud ridiculousness with sudden inexplicable shocks of eerie dark energy as it delves into the minds of the anxiety-ridden characters, in a challenging work loaded with meaningful absurdity. --DC Theater Arts on Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

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Will Arberyis a playwright and screenwriter. His other plays includeHeroes of the Fourth Turning(Pulitzer Prize finalist),Plano,You Hateful Things, andWheelchair. Awards include a Whiting, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and New York Drama Critics' Circle. He's currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club, Adventureland, and The Metropolitan Opera. He was a writer and producer onSuccession(HBO).

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