Talk Radio (TCG Edition)

By Eric Bogosian

Book Overview

"Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know." -John Hellpern, New York Observer

"Gut-grabbing... the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting." -Ben Brantley, New York Times

"More timely today than it was twenty years ago... Radio crackles with intensity." -Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

"Hypnotic Both as an actor's tour-de-force and a stinging cultural analysis." -David Rooney, Variety

This is the fully revised version of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, his breakthrough 1987 Public Theater hit, which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was adapted to film by Oliver Stone, and was revived on Broadway in 2007 in celebration of the play's twentieth anniversary.

One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian's solo-performance career.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155936324X
• ISBN13: 9781559363242
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Bogosian is great.

This play is very funny. There are also a number of monologues in it that can be used for auditions. Barry's struggle in the play to come off as being cocky and sure of himself is contrasted nicely with his inherent vulnerability. The monologues from all the other characters also give an interesting introspective into the life and mind of Barry Champlain. The main dialogue of the other characters in the play comes from the monologues, which create depth of character in both the person speaking, and Barry. Throughout the course of the play I am made to love, hate, feel sorry for and admire Barry. I applaud this play.