What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts

by Craig Lucas

Book Overview

" God's Heart is a play which dares to say very ugly things from a very moral place, which risks censure in an effort to reach an ugly truth; a play that's wise to its own inescapable shortcomings and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155936159X
• ISBN13: 9781559361590
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Contemporary Theater at its best

Craig Lucas' amazing THE DYING GAUL is the centerpiece of his latest collection of full-length and one-act plays, WHAT I MEANT WAS. Lucas' provocative drama responds to the perils of cyberlife, one of contemporary drama's most recently popular subjects (as in Kopit's Y2K and Marber's CLOSER). However, Lucas delves deeply, chronicling the pain of a screenwriter who has recently lost his lover to AIDS. He has sold his script to a heartless producer, and enters an affair with him, even though the producer is both married and simultaneously attempting to rid his manuscript of any trace of its gay subject matter. As an outlet to his suffering, he surfs the loveless yet safe confines of the Internet. However, the series of events which ensue are both blazingly theatrical and a sobering statement on the capacities of the human spirit in the age of technology. Presented here with a number of other recent Lucas plays, the playwright exhibits a longing and passion which could not be seen in his earlier work PRELUDE TO A KISS. Readers cannot miss Lucas' introduction to the plays, which identifies the new found anger inherent in his "new" theatrical voice.