TCG Books Publishes Will Eno's THE REALISTIC JONESES

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses.

The Realistic Joneses received its world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in the spring of 2012 in New Haven, Connecticut. It opened on Broadway in New York City in the spring of 2014, where it won a Drama Desk Award, was named USA Today's "Best Play on Broadway," topped the Guardian's 2014 list of best American plays, and was included in the New York Times' "Best Theater of 2014."

Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, are two suburban couples who have more in common than their identical last names. This existential comedy, pitched in Will Eno's singular voice, finds the darkness, sweetness and hilarity in our fleeting and ordinary days, as we seek to reveal ourselves, and conceal ourselves, often in the same minute. Sometimes there are only short-term answers to life's eternal questions, but all four Joneses, like all of us, are going to try their best, in very different ways.

Will Eno's play The Open House premiered at Signature Theatre Company in 2014, and received the Obie Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, and a Drama Desk Special Award. His play Title and Deed premiered at Signature in 2012 and was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. Both Title and Deed and The Realistic Joneses were included in the New York Times Best Plays of 2012 list. Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into many languages. Other plays include Gnit, an adaption of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Middletown, The Flu Season and Tragedy: a tragedy.

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The Realistic Joneses

By Will Eno

Paperback 96 pages

$14.95 978-1-55936-474-4

May 2015

eBook

978-1-55936-792-9

Other titles by Will Eno, available from TCG:

The Flu Season and Other Plays

$14.95 978-1-55936-291-7

Gnit

$13.95 978-1-55936-477-5

Middletown

$14.95 978-1-55936-380-8

Thom Pain (based on nothing)

$13.95 978-1-55936-275-7

Title and Deed / Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions

$14.95 978-1-55936-465-2

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