Thursday, September 11, 2003
This time it’s five
Remember Joanna Laurens’s The Three Birds, the flawed-but-dazzling and probably groundbreaking verse play that had its New York premiere last winter? Probably not. It had a limited run in DUMBO and got paltry publicity.
Not a huge pity, since Laurens is likely to get another chance here. Her new play debuts at the Almeida in December. It’s called Five Gold Rings, and may be the event that solidifies her reputation in London as “the next big thing” (words of reader Jack S., who went to the Three Birds’ overseas premiere). Most of us won’t get to see it, but I bet we’ll be hearing a lot more about this playwright sometime next year. Meanwhile, the recently published edition of Three Birds is available at Drama Books. I’ll detail why exactly we should care in an upcoming blog.
Oh, and did I mention she’s only twenty-five? If that doesn’t make me feel like chopped liver....
Posted by Scott Reynolds at September 11, 2003 11:09 AM
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