Minor Complications: Two Plays

By Brendan Gall

Finalist for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award in Drama In a world where hilarity and heartbreak are next-door neighbours, minor complications inevitably arise. In this first collection of plays by Brendan Gall, including Wide Awake Hearts and A Quiet Place , these Minor Complications become groundbreakingly major. In Wide Awake Hearts , four nameless friends - a writer, an actress, an actor and an editor - stumble through the nightmarish landscape of love and infidelity while trying to make a movie about those very things. Reality and fiction blur as all four try to tear everything apart, hoping to wake up to something better. In A Quiet Place , two amnesiacs in a room with no door attempt to solve the puzzle of their own existence while trying not to kill each other or fall in love. A great reckoning in a little room, this play will take you from mystery to comedy to tragedy - all with just two men, one chair and a light bulb. 'In Wide Awake Hearts , Brendan Gall deals with the complicated relationship between fiction and truth and, as always, he offers up razor-sharp insights. He's got an uncanny ability to channel epic existential themes through his beautiful-loser characters, his style is ultra-contemporary and hip, and his comic timing is virtuosic.' - Hannah Moscovitch 'As one character puts it in Brendan Gall's Wide Awake Hearts , "Nice people make dull drama." Happily, niceness never intrudes in this witty, sexy new work by the multi-talented Gall.' - NOW Magazine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552452379
• ISBN13: 9781552452370
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.2"