Talk Radio (TCG Edition)
by Eric Bogosian
2020-12-29 17:03:27
âYour fear, your own lives, have become your entertainment.ââTalk Radio âMore timely today than it was twenty years ago . . . Radio crackles with intensity.ââJoe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News âThe most lacerati...
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âYour fear, your own lives, have become your entertainment.ââTalk Radio âMore timely today than it was twenty years ago . . . Radio crackles with intensity.ââJoe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News âThe most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting. . . . This revival, like the original production, allows its star to grab an audience by the lapels and shake it into submission.ââBen Brantley, The New York Times Eric Bogosianâs Talk Radioâhis breakthrough 1987 Public Theater hit that was made into a film by Oliver Stoneâhas been revived in a âmesmerizingâ (Newsday) production on Broadway, with Liev Schreiber playing the role of the late-night shock jock that Bogosian himself originated. The drama is set in the studio of Clevelandâs WTLK Radio over the course of Barry Champlainâs two-hour broadcast, being scrutinized that night by producers with an interest in taking the show national, and fueled as always by coffee, cocaine, and Jack Danielâs. Barryâs jousts with his unseen callersâranging from a white supremacist to a woman obsessed with her garbage disposalâare peppered with insights into his character from his ex-deejay pal and his sometime girlfriend/producer, and punctuated with a transformative visit from an embodied voice. Eric Bogosian is a writer and actor who over the last twenty years has authored five full-length plays and created six full-length solos for himself, including subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; and Drinking in America. He is the recipient of three OBIE Awards and a Drama Desk Award, and has toured throughout the United States and Europe.
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