Play with Me: Theater - Paperback

by Ana Ruxandra Badea (Author)

A young woman seeking to be understood, although she can barely understand her own existence; a young man looking for North, with no purpose or reason; an old man rebelling against meaninglessness and chaos; a dead apple tree in the middle of a living room; a never-ending poem about a limbless puppet - these are the driving forces behind "Replay", a one-act comic tragedy.

Are authors fully in control of their characters? Do they always have the power to decide how a character lives, what a character says, how a character dies? Or are there, perhaps, instances when characters take on lives of their own - decide for themselves what words need to be spoken, how their lives should proceed or end? These questions lay the groundwork for "Working Title", a play told through the eyes of an author struggling with writer's block.

Author Biography

Ana Ruxandra Badea was born in Romania in 1985. After completing her studies at University College Utrecht and the University of Warwick, she worked in diplomacy. This is her first published book.