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The Motherfucker with the Hat & Between Riverside and Crazy
The Motherfucker with the Hat Between Riverside and Crazy Author:Stephen Adley Guirgis "A bold, highly articulate and deceptively compassionate Stephen Adley Guirgis drama about the peaks, valleys, minefields and revelations of addiction in an urban underclass."?Chicago Tribune on The Motherfucker with the Hat"Completely compelling . . . Galvanizing but not importunate. You could cry (I did), but you are always free simply to laug... more »h instead."?New York on Between Riverside and Crazy"His empathetic, poetic tales of ex-cons, addicts, and other men whom society would label losers return us, again and again, to a world that Guirgis, by virtue of his particular religion?the church of the streets?illuminates with the bright and crooked light of his faith."?New YorkerWith a keen insight into the lives of downtrodden city dwellers, Stephen Adly Guirgis delves into the challenges of pride and self-transformation, and the intricacies of love in a working-class world. The Motherfucker with the Hat?Guirgis' Broadway debut?not only blends comedy with drama, but also love with addiction and betrayal with loss, in a story about a recovering junkie and the misguided characters trying to help him. Between the Riverside and Crazy centers around Pops, a retired cop and the would-be patriarch of his misfit lodgers, as he struggles to maintain control in an unraveling world.Stephen Adly Guirgis's other plays include Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Our Lady of 121st Street, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Little Flower of East Orange, Den of Thieves, Race Religion Politics, and Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho. He is a former co-artistic director of LABryinth Theater Company. Awards include the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award and a 2014 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.« less