Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - Paperback

by Christopher Durang (Author)

Siblings Vanya and Sonia live a quiet life in the family farmhouse in Pennsylvania caring for their parents. Their peaceful routine is disrupted when their movie star sister Masha visits for the weekend with her young lover (Spike) and announces her plans to sell their childhood home. A weekend of rivalry, regret, and raucousness follows in this multi award-winning play.

Author Biography

Christopher Durang is the author of the Tony Award nominee "A History of the American Film," the Obie award-winning "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo" (Obie Award and Dramastists Guild Hull Warriner Award), "Laughing Wild, Betty's Summer Vacation" (Obie Award), and "Miss Witherspoon" (Pulitzer Prize finalist). Along with Marsha Norman, Durang is the cochair of the playwrights program at the drama division of the Julliard School. Durang won the Harvard Arts Medal, the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, and was presented with the very first Luminary Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards.