Red Light Winter: A Play

I read this play in college and performed a scene for a showcase. I had originally borrowed it and finally decided to purchase it after I was asked to do a reading of the scene a few years later. This play was a runner up for the Nobel Prize, so it's definitely worth your time!

Great copy of a great play!

I really loved this script, but anyone else I have lent it to hated it. :)It's a pretty brutal, sick look at humanity. It has the same sort of ugly undertones as plays like "Closer" or "The Shape of Things." It has some very graphic sex scenes and good monologue material for an early-20s male actor.

RAPP is at his best here.

Typical grunge and shock value playwriting, substituting nudity, sex and drugs for storytelling or character development. Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against sex and drugs on stage- if anything we need more of it. But that doesn't change this from being and underdeveloped narative that starts nowhere, goes nowhere, and seems to be written more as an excersise in stream of consciousness. Vague notions of "love" are tossed about, people behave in ways no one would ever behave in order to pad the length and create a sense of manufactured depth. "Important things must be happening, look how strange everyone is behaving!" Ugh.Still, it could be excellent fodder for students, some decent scene work to be pulled from it, maybe a monologue or two. All in all, I don't see any real reason to put this onstage unless you're looking for an excuse to be naked on stage. For that try Alan Bowne, Sam Shepard or John Patrick Shanley; vastly superior authors with vastly superior plays.

Whoever is interested in contemporary theater, this is a great play! It is very easy to read, but the story is very complex. Interesting

I directed this play! It amazing. I recommend it to all. What a gripping work!

Cool book. Nice to read something that really taps into our generation's neuroses and foibles in a non-judgmental way.

I laughed, i cried, left me happy and sad