Raised in Captivity

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Nicky Silver. Raised in Captivity

INTRODUCTION

Act I BREAD AND WATER

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“Funny, imaginative and possessed of a furious energy that makes it spin like a top, go off in all directions like a Catherine Wheel and leave you gasping for breath.... You escape from its nonsensical brilliance to the slightly less demented real world with a sense of relief, only to find that many of its clouds have a Nicky Silver lining”—John Simon, New York

“Raised in Captivity is about guilt, redemption and self-punishment, and against all odds, it is also very funny....[Mr. Silver has created a theatrical world as mannered and self-contained as that of Oscar Wilde. But it goes way beyond the reflexive, knowing irony common to hip American comedy today. There is an anguished heart beneath all that artifice.... There are elements that recall John Guare, Spalding Gray and particularly Christopher Durang. But the total effect is of a strong, wonderfully idiosyncratic voice that has come firmly into its own.... [Silver’s] dialogue has the shimmer of an opal. And it has been paced with the surest rhythms of any playwright since David Mamet....Archly absurdist comedies come cheap these days. Finding one with depth of feeling is truly a cause to celebrate.”

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SEBASTIAN: I get it almost every night. It comes from sleeping on the wrong side.

BERNADETTE: Of the bed?

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