‘Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of her work notwithstanding, outrageously optimistic. She seems to believe that the world can change. She certainly writes as if she intends to set it on fire.’—Tony Kushner
‘Wallace is that unfashionable thing – a deeply political US playwright who unashamedly writes about ideas rather than feelings.’—The Guardian
Lauded for her topical, searing explorations of the intricate and pressing issues that affect humanity, Naomi Wallace’s new work Night is a Room centers around the timeless subject of love and relationships, specifically in their tenuousness. This story of a seemingly ideal married couple is torn apart when the husband’s previously unknown birth mother makes a surprise visit for his fortieth birthday. In Night is a Room, Wallace examines the heart of human connections, and the intimate challenges love can create, romantic or otherwise.
Naomi Wallace ‘s plays—which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East—include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Hard Weather Boating Party, and The Liquid Plain. She has been awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize twice, the Joseph Kesselring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, an Obie Award, and the 2012 Horton Foote Award for most promising new American play.
About the author
Naomi Wallace is a playwright from Kentucky. Her plays, which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and the Middle East, include
In the Heart of America,
Slaughter City,
One Flea Spare,
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek,
Things of Dry Hours,
The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East,
And I and Silence,
The Hard Weather Boating Party, and
The Liquid Plain. Her stage adaptation of William Wharton’s novel
Birdy was produced on the West End in London. In 2009,
One Flea Spare was incorporated in the permanent repertoire of the French National Theater, the Comédie-Francaise. Only two American playwrights have been added to La Comédie’s repertoire in 300 years. Films:
Lawn Dogs,
The War Boys,
Flying Blind (co-written with Bruce Mc Leod). Awards: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), Joseph Kesselring Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Obie Award, and the 2012 Horton Foote Award for most promising new American play. She is also a recipient of the Mac Arthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts development grant. In 2013, Wallace received the inaugural Windham Campbell prize for drama and in 2015, an Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
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