Playwright Johnna Adams Discusses and Signs Her New Play at The Drama Book Shop Today

The Drama Book Shop is pleased to welcome playwright Johnna Adams for a discussion and signing of her new play Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens tonight, July 29th at 5:00pm. The event is free to the public. Copies of Ms. Adams' play will be available for purchase.

In Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens, which takes place during the Napoleonic wars, three extraneous Danish court officials - a professional loudmouth (the buttonholer), a kiss-ass for hire (the lickspittle), and a successful dastard (the go-between) - are tossed out of court just as Denmark's merchant fleet becomes of strategic importance. The three men journey to France and meet Napoleon's top lickspittle, buttonholer, and go-between-who are females?! Unnecessarily complex plots abound, flying machines are destroyed, and the head of Marie Antoinette is discovered during the madcap struggle to save Copenhagen from British howitzers. With an extraordinary use of rhyming alexandrine verse, plus cameos by sestina, haiku, free verse, limericks, and sonnets, Ms. Adams' play is a farce for the ages, a delightful romp no matter your poetic preferences.

Johnna Adams received a Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Citation in 2013 for her play Gidion's Knot. She is the 2011 recipient of the Princess Grace Award and a 2012 Finalist for the Susan Smith Black-burn Award. Gidion's Knot. was published in the December 2012 edition of American Theatre Magazine. The Contemporary American Theater Festival premiered Gidion's Knot in 2012 and twelve regional productions were planned around the country in the following 2013-14 season. Flux Theatre Ensemble (New York) produced her play Sans Merci in 2013 and was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for best play. Gidion's Knot and Sans Merci are published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Johnna received a 2012 MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College with Tina Howe.

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Event date:

Friday, July 29, 2016 - 5:00pm

Event address:

250 W 40th St New York, NY 10018