Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues

Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues Synopsis

A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In these and other monologues, selected from over two decades of work, award-winning American playwright Dan O'Brien illuminates, in heartbreaking and unwavering fashion, the humanity of lost souls longing to be heard."e;Dan O'Brien is a playwright-poet who, like a mash-up of Seamus Heaney and Dashiel Hammett, puts the audience in the middle of an unfolding mystery promising both revelation and terror, and delivering an equal measure of both."e; Robert SchenkkanO'Brien is an outstanding wordsmith and a sharp observer of character."e;Varietyemotionally gripping, psychologically astute...a bracing and absorbing piece of theater."e;New York Times(Critics' Pick) onThe Body of an American"e;A masterpiece of truthfulness and feeling"e;TheGuardianonWar Reporterutterly riveting...frequently exhilarating"e;The Washington PostonThe Body of an American

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