Summary
It's a paradox. Take the election: we're obsessed with the human stories, you know, Where I Come From, My Struggles, What My Parents Were Like. And yet, really digging deep, getting under the skin of the political and social issues that define us somehow feels "unAmerican" because it reminds us of differences and divisions we don't like to think about.' [Christopher Shinn] certainly bucks this trend: difference and division are his bread and butter.
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The Laureate of Intractable Conflicts
Looking every inch the Brit that he isn't, American playwright Christopher Shinn takes a bite of a sandwich in a Shepherd's Bush rehearsal room on a rainy summer afternoon and confesses that, although grateful, he still finds it 'a mystery' that it should have been London's theatrical community, rather than New York's, that made his career. For his latest play, Now ...
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