Dramatic comedy: 4m, 3f
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
Winner of the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
From the back cover:
Ex-cop and recent widower Walter "Pops" Washington and his newly paroled son Junior have spent a lifetime living between Riverside and crazy. But now, the NYPD is demanding his signature to close an outstanding lawsuit, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed - and the church won't leave him alone. When the struggle to keep one of New York City's last great rent-stabilized apartments collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum, it seems that the old days may be dead and gone.
"...somewhere south of cozy and north of dangerous, west of sitcom and due east of tragedy...a dizzying and exciting place to be... Blurring lines between the sacred and profane has always been a specialty of Mr. Guirgis...fresh and startling...Riverside traffics in paradoxes, which is to say it deals with the walking contradictions that are human beings... Mr. Guirgis has a splendid ear for these various languages of deception." --The New York Times
"You can't always believe your eyes or ears during Stephen Adly Guirgis' vivid group portrait, Between Riverside and Crazy. [Guirgis'] dialogue is believable and lived-in." --New York Daily News
"...wonderful...a genuine original, one that deserves to be seen by anyone hungry for a smart, exuberantly funny urban dramedy with a spirit as shrewd and forgiving as its motor-mouth language is wild and lush." --Newsday
