Phyllis Nagy – författare

"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she isthe finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Alistair Macaulay,Financial Times)

WeldonRising: Downtown New York. The temperature is soaring. In themeat-packing district, Natty Weldon''s lover is casually butchered by ahomicidal homophobe. The witnesses do not intervene. Natty flees interror, two lesbians watch from their apartment window and a flamboyanttransvestite prostitute cowers in the street below. But life changesfor them after the murder.

Disappeared: Sarah Casey, a travelagent who has never been anywhere, meets the mysterious Elston Rupp ina bar in New York''s Hell''s Kitchen. They walk out together and she isnever seen again. Was she murdered, has she escaped from the city ofloners, or has she simply vanished?

Nagy is "the laconic laureate of this spiritual wasteland" (Paul Taylor, Independent)

The first stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith''s famous crime novel

TomRipley is a criminal with an ambiguous past. He is sent to Italy by awealthy financier to try and coax home the rich man''s son. In theprocess Ripley becomes both attracted and seduced, finding the murderthe only way to deal with the situation. From that point Ripley triesto cover up his crime. Patricia Highsmith''s beguiling tale of moralityand amorality is given a dramatic rendering by contemporary dramatistPhyllis Nagy, who knew Highsmith in her later years in Paris.

"Eachplay I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she is thefinest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Financial Times)

"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she isthe finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Alistair Macaulay,Financial Times)

Nagy''slatest play is a blend of chilling humour and surrealism,interconnected issues of sex, truth, sincerity, psychology and mystery.

"Whereasmuch contemporary playwriting is egregious, anorexic, short-winded anduncluttered, Nagy writes sinuously and elegantly, working towards atheatrical coalescence of plot, dialogue and swiftly changing scenicrepresentation that is as exciting as it is unusual" (Michael Coveney)

"Young playwrights don''t come much hotter than Phyllis Nagy" (Daily Telegraph)

Includesher three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon Rising "Here is the bestnew play I have seen in many months...This play is exciting because itis well written, unusually constructed and morally serious." (FinancialTimes); in Butterfly Kiss "Nagy captures the texture of a life andwrites short, vivid, often disturbingly erotic scenes...it''s a playthat leaves me proclaiming Nagy a writer of real talent" (Guardian),Disappeared (winner of the Mobil Prize,1995) "A piece that gets rightunder your skin...There''s no neat solution to Nagy''s conundrum, just afog of fear, despair, and most remarkably of all, a final mirage ofescape. Spine-tingling stuff" (Daily Telegraph) The Strip,"kaleidoscopic and hugely accomplished dissection of fate, love andchance" (Independent)

"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirmsme in the belief that she is the finest playwright to have emerged inthe 1990s" (Financial Times)