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"Brilliantly upsetting and endearing . . . riveting."— Newsday An updated and revised edition of Wallace Shawn's most outlandish work to date.This poetic epic about a scientist, his wife, and his two mistresses as they fend for their lives in a world savagely close to extinction, raises issues of redemption, forgiveness, and responsibility. Grasses of a Thousand Colors is a troubling, erotic adventure that received high critical praise for its first New York City revival in 2013, starring Shawn. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His often politically charged and controversial plays include The Fever , Aunt Dan and Lemon , Marie and Bruce , and The Designated Mourner . With Andre´ Gregory, he co-wrote My Dinner with Andre´ , in which he also starred.

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“[Our Late Night is] a short play, but a savage one…Neurosis, panic and sexual surreality underlie Shawn’s startling vision of New Yorkers at play.”—Guardian Wallace Shawn’s OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts—currently out of print—created an uproar with its 1977 London premiere, investigated by the vice squad for its allegedly pornographic content. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His politically charged and controversial plays include Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Designated Mourner, and The Fever.

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“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” –Time “Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times “In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of intellectual snobs everywhere.” –The New York Times Writer and performer Wallace Shawn’s landmark 1996 play features three characters—a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband—suspected of subversion in a world where culture has come under the control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production directed by David Hare, who also directed the film version, starring Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson. The play’s subsequent New York premiere was staged in a long-abandoned men’s club in lower Manhattan, directed by Shawn’s longtime collaborator André Gregory. Wallace Shawn is the author of Our Late Night (OBIE Award for Best Play), Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, and the screenplay for My Dinner with André. His most recent play, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, premiered last year in London.

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• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton• Four star review in The Guardian• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David Hare.– The film My Dinner with Andre went on to become a cinematic standard and highly revered material in the study of film.– Shawn translated and adapted a widely acclaimed version of the theatrical classic The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. – His most recent work was a translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Master Builder, which was also adapted for film by Jonathan Demme.

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"Aufhören, nachdenken. Und noch einmal anfangen. Anders." Wallace Shawn
Männlich, weiß, ein wohlhabendes und gebildetes Elternhaus: Dem US-Amerikaner Wallace Shawn wurden die Privilegien in die Wiege gelegt. Doch was passiert, wenn man anfängt, das, was selbstverständlich erscheint, zu hinterfragen und feststellt: Ich bin auf der Seite, die Gewalt ausübt?
In seinen Nachtgedanken spricht Shawn leise, einfach, aber umso eindringlicher über Herrschaftsverhältnisse und soziale Ungleichheit, Globalisierung und Teilhabe an Ressourcen, über die politische Praxis der westlichen Mächte und über den militanten Islamismus; er denkt über die Verantwortung der wenigen «Glücklichen» gegenüber den vielen «Glücklosen» nach und hält unserer Zivilisation einen Spiegel vor.

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