{"product_id":"vicuna-a-play-paperback","title":"Vicuña: A Play - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Robin Baitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA play centering on the tensions between a political demagogue and the tailor who makes his suit\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his Upper East Side atelier, a bespoke tailor, Anselm Kassar, is persuaded by the vulgar real estate mogul turned presidential candidate Kurt Seaman to make him the perfect suit. A suit to \"stun them\" at the final debate before the election, a suit for him to wear while he takes on his unnamed female opponent. Kassar agrees to make Seaman a suit with magical powers of persuasion, to allow him to \"close the deal with the American people.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of three fittings for this exorbitantly expensive and totemic vicuña suit, Seaman cajoles and spars with the tailor and his young Muslim apprentice, Amir. Amir's challenges to Seaman and Seaman's daughter Srilanka over the dangerously xenophobic and inflammatory rhetoric coming out of the campaign make the fittings increasingly volatile in the genteel atelier. Vulnerabilities are exploited masterfully by the candidate, in the manner of a true sociopath with a perfect instinct for other people's weaknesses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComing out of an election season that laid bare the rage in much of America, Jon Robin Baitz's \u003ci\u003eVicuña \u003c\/i\u003eis an astute satire of what--or who--it takes to bring those anxieties to the fore.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Robin Baitz\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Los Angeles in 1961, and grew up there, in Rio de Janeiro, and in South Africa. His plays have been extensively produced on and off Broadway and throughout the world. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Film Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Substance of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Three Hotels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Fair Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Paris Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOther Desert Cities. \u003c\/i\u003eHe created the ABC TV show \u003ci\u003eBrothers \u0026amp; Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, which ran for five seasons from 2007 to 2012, and the miniseries \u003ci\u003eThe Slap\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Tony nominee for the Broadway production of \u003ci\u003eOther Desert Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Guggenheim fellow, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award win\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158732243007,"sku":"9780374283599","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ovsKldtoid9780374283599.webp?v=1776992712","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/vicuna-a-play-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}