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Take Me Out

Author: Richard Greenberg
Binding: Paperback
Published: 06 August, 2003
ISBN: 0571211186

$11.20


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Take Me Out

Take Me Out
by: Richard Greenberg

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Grand Slam!!!:

Wow! Read this (or better yet, see it) and marvel at the wonders of great playwriting. Dazzling writing + a great story = amazing theatre. The characters jump off the page. This is NOT a "gay play", but a story about choices, courage and consequences. Squeezed in there is a monologue on baseball that is destined to achieve classic status and would make anyone want to head out to the ballfield. Somehow all of the elements of this play just work, though I defy anyone to explain how, in simple terms. It... more info

Well-wrtten play will delight you:

I've seen this play twice, and I am amazed by the depth of character and attention to detail in the written form. Greenberg has obviously paid attention to the sport press, and the various players in the game of baseball. There are redneck baseball players who make horrific remarks, and there are also meek Japanese players. I dislike baseball, and I rarely watch baseball and the ensuing media, but even I know that the characters in Greenberg's play have real-life counterparts.

The play is crisply... more info

Far from his best work but still well written and fun:

This is far from Greenberg's best work but it's a well written entertaining play. Due to the extensive nudity in the play, this is his most commercial hit.


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