Reviews

Grasses of a Thousand Colors by Wallace Shawn

christinemark's review against another edition

3.0

well..this was the most bizarre play i have ever read. don't know how to feel about it.

areaxbiologist's review against another edition

3.0

The play's composed of huge monologues and takes place half on screen. I'm fascinated with the way Shawn has his characters describing the action - as an actor, how can you be a sportscaster for your character's life and still live it on stage? But this play is so fantastical that the subject matter really takes over - it's a sci-fi fantastical fairytale mixed with a particularly fascinating episode of Cheaters. It's all about sex and affairs, but to give it a scholastic label, let's say it's about appetite - sexual, gastronomic, and even an appetite for love and our own bodies. It's like nothing I've read before.