\u003cdiv\u003e\"A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile... The marvel of Mr. Eno\u0026#8217;s voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes\u0026#151;\u0026#145;Don\u0026#8217;t ever change,\u0026#8217; \u0026#145;Who knows\u0026#8217;\u0026#151;are turned inside out or twisted into blunt, unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily word-drunk.\" \u0026#151;Charles Isherwood, \u003cI\u003eNew York Times\u003c/I\u003e on \u003cI\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"\u003cI\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c/I\u003e is daring within its masquerade of the mundane, spectacular within its minimalism and hilarious within its display of po-faced bewilderment. It is a clown play that capers at the edge of the abyss... Eno\u0026#8217;s voice is unique; his play is stage poetry of a high order. You can\u0026#8217;t see the ideas coming in \u003cI\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c/I\u003e. When they arrive\u0026#151;tiptoeing in with a quiet yet startling energy\u0026#151;you don\u0026#8217;t quite know how they got there. In this tale\u0026#8217;s brilliant telling, it is not the narrator who proves unreliable but life itself. The unspoken message of Eno\u0026#8217;s smart, bleak musings seems to be: enjoy the nothingness while you can.\" \u0026#151;John Lahr, \u003cI\u003eNew Yorker\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"Eno is a supreme monologist, using a distinctive, edgy blend of non sequiturs and provisional statements to explore the fragility of our existence... There are a lot of words, but they are always exquisitely chosen... \u003cI\u003eOh, the Humanity\u003c/I\u003e reveals that we are beautiful walking tragedies blinking with absurd optimism into the camera lens of history.\" \u0026#151;Lyn Gardner, \u003cI\u003eGuardian\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eKnown for his wry humor and deeply moving plays, Will Eno's \"gift for articulating life's absurd beauty and its no less absurd horrors may be unmatched among writers of his generation\" (\u003cI\u003eNew York Times\u003c/I\u003e). This new volume of the acclaimed playwright's work includes five short plays about being alive\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eBehold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured\u003c/I\u003e; \u003cI\u003eLadies and Gentlemen, the Rain\u003c/I\u003e; \u003cI\u003eEnter the Spokeswoman, Gently\u003c/I\u003e; \u003cI\u003eThe Bully Composition\u003c/I\u003e; and \u003cI\u003eOh, the Humanity\u003c/I\u003e\u0026#151;as well as \u003cI\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c/I\u003e, a haunting and severely funny solo rumination on life as everlasting exile.\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cB\u003eWILL ENO\u003c/B\u003e is a fellow of Residency Five at Signature Theatre Company in New York. His play \u003cI\u003eThe Open House\u003c/I\u003e premiered at Signature in 2014, and received an Obie Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, and a Drama Desk Special Award. His play \u003cI\u003eThe Realistic Joneses\u003c/I\u003e premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2012, and was produced on Broadway in 2014, for which he and the cast received a Drama Desk Special Award. His play \u003cI\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c/I\u003e premiered at Signature in 2012 and was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. Both \u003cI\u003eTitle and Deed\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eThe Realistic Joneses\u003c/I\u003e were included in the \u003cI\u003eNew York Times\u003c/I\u003e Best Plays List of 2012. \u003cI\u003eGnit\u003c/I\u003e, an adaption of Ibsen\u0026#8217;s \u003cI\u003ePeer Gynt\u003c/I\u003e, premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2013. \u003cI\u003eMiddletown\u003c/I\u003e, winner of the Horton Foote Prize, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in New York in 2010, and was then produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2011. \u003cI\u003eThom Pain (based on nothing)\u003c/I\u003e was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into many languages. \u003cI\u003eThe Flu Season\u003c/I\u003e premiered at the Gate Theatre in London in 2003, and later received the Oppenheimer Award for best New York debut production by an American writer. \u003cI\u003eTragedy: a tragedy\u003c/I\u003e premiered at the Gate Theatre in 2001, and was subsequently produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2008. Mr. Eno lives in Brooklyn with his wife Maria Dizzia and their daughter Albertine.\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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