{"product_id":"the-metal-children-a-play-9780865479241","title":"The Metal Children: A Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA play about fiction's power to both divide and unite, from Pulitzer finalist Adam Rapp\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to understand each other, \u003ci\u003eThe Metal Children\u003c\/i\u003e explores what happens when fiction becomes a matter of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Rapp\u003c\/b\u003e is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director, as well as a novelist, filmmaker, actor, and musician. His play\u003ci\u003e The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois\u003c\/i\u003e had its world première at South Coast Repertory. His other plays include \u003ci\u003eRed Light Winter \u003c\/i\u003e(Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association, a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best New Play, two OBIE Awards, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Metal Children, Finer Noble Gases, Through The Yellow Hour, The Hallway Trilogy, Nocturne, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Faster, Gompers, Essential Self-Defense, American Slingo, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKindness\u003c\/i\u003e. For film, he wrote the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eWinter Passing\u003c\/i\u003e; and directed \u003ci\u003eLoitering with Intent.\u003c\/i\u003e Rapp has been the recipient of the 1999 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting, a 2000 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 2001 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and Boston's Elliot Norton Award; and was short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, received the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a 2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330113540370,"sku":"9780865479241","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_04fe09d7-9f9d-4533-83dd-2506ec382bf6.jpg?v=1727792114","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-metal-children-a-play-9780865479241","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}