A Case for the Existence of God

Samuel D. Hunter

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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
23 October 2024

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World Premiere:had its premiere in April 2022 at New York's Signature Theatre. Best Theater of 2022:

Named one of the best plays of the year byThe New York Times,Time Out New York,Vulture,Wall Street Journal, andThe Wrap. Screenwriting:starring Zach Galifianakis. Awards:

Hunter's awards include the MacArthur Fellowship, The Drama Desk Award, The Lucille Lortel Award, the Whiting Award, and an Obie Award.

By: Samuel D. Hunter
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 136mm,
ISBN: 9781636701943
ISBN 10: 1636701949
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 23 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

"Samuel D. Hunter'splays includeThe Whale(Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play),A Bright New Boise(Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play),The Few, A Great Wilderness,Rest,Pocatello, The Healing, The Harvest, Lewiston, Clarkston,andGreater Clements. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur ""Genius Grant"" Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. His plays have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, and around the country at such theaters as Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. His work has been developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, and PlayPenn. He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, a member of Partial Comfort Productions, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage. A native of northern Idaho, Sam lives in NYC. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard."

Reviews for A Case for the Existence of God

"""Samuel D. Hunter's heartbreaking new play argues for hope even in the face of extreme disappointment."" --The New York Times ""The playwright has reduced his components to the bare minimum, offering us Hunter superfans a chance to marvel at his elegant way with exposition and the stealthy way he lures us down into the deep end of the emotional pool."" --Vulture ""The slightly daunting, furrowed-brow title of Samuel D. Hunter's new play, ""A Case for the Existence of God,"" might alarm theatergoers uninterested in a fraught theological debate. (Which would be most of them--er, us.) But Mr. Hunter, one of the finest playwrights at work today, is anything but an ideologue. His subject is the complexities of specific human beings--appealingly unexceptional ones--and the trials, large and small, that life throws their way. Mr. Hunter's plays are notable, or rather remarkable, for their laid-back simplicity and the depth of the compassion he shows for his characters. Both are on exemplary view in this play, easily one of the best of the year."" --Wall Street Journal"