An electrifying new play by Tony Awardndash;winning playwright Richard Greenberg; The Babylon Line opens at Lincoln Center Theater on December 5; 2016. A thirty-eight-year-old writer from Greenwich Village; Aaron is painfully aware of his failures as an artist when his desperate need for a job forces him to commute along the Babylon Line to Levittown to teach. What awaits him is a classroom of varyingly unwilling students; some who attend because their preferred course was full; others who are attentive enough but sit silently at their desksmdash;and all of whom have yet to set pen to paper. Over the course of the semester; Aaronrsquo;s adult pupils write increasingly more honest life accounts and stories; and cracks begin to appear in their small-town community. A particularly bold and troubled student; Joan; strikes up a rapport with Aaron that threatens to become something more; as the pair bond over their failing marriages and creative frustrations. In the end; we observe the life-changing effects of artistic expression as Greenberg maps out the rest of each of the charactersrsquo; lives; full of triumphs and newfound joy that can be traced back directly to those few weeks in a classroom in 1967. Richard Greenbergs intelligent; nuanced; and perceptive dialogue has been described by the New York Times as "exquisite . . . sparkling gems that [he] delivers with gratifying frequency." One of Americas most loved and frequently produced playwrights; Greenberg has wisdom that runs deep; and his humor and charm make his work destined to be read and performed for generations to come.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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