| Summary: | "The three plays in this collection by OBIE-winning US playwright Caridad Svich examine varying aspects of art and decadence through the lens of contemporary visual art, photography, painting, and fashion. They are, in effect, plays of and about the demi-monde who live in cosmopolitan Western cities on the brink of economic collapse. References to Andy Warhol's Factory, Weimer-era painting and carbaret, and the works of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin in fashion photography serve as a template through which to read and understand these plays and their acid-dipped view of celebrity culture and consumerism. These plays examine lives addicted to surfaces and play iwth linguistic surfaces Mannerist in mode and style, whilst underneath suffused with a hard ache for the lost souls that inhabit their distinct harsh-lit, emptied worlds of sadness."--Page 4 of cover.
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