BASIC FACTS ABOUT "QUILLS"

AUTHOR & LANGUAGE

A full length play in English by Doug Wright.

PLAY STRUCTURE

A full length play made up of two acts, with twelve scene divisions comprising the first act and thirteen divisions in the second act.
Quills, Wright

CAST BREAKDOWN

4-5 Men (as roles can be doubled) 2-3 Women (as roles can be doubled)

APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME

“two hours and 40 minutes”
http://www.shotgunplayers.org/archive/seas13/quills/reviews/oaktrib.cfm


GENRE

A period drama thriller focused on censorship.
http://sg.movies.yahoo.com/Doug+Wright/biography/68485/biography/


“The play is written, I hope, with all the fervor and self-consciousness of true melodrama"
-Doug Wright
http://www.dramatica.com/story/analyses/analyses/quills.html


“While Quills delivers on all the pre-announced elements and is about depravity it is not a depraved play. What it does do (successfully so) is to rouse the audience into being genuinely moved, to leave the theater full of questions about the perseverance of the human spirit and why art, morality and freedom of expression are as much hot button issues today as they were in 1807.”
http://www.curtainup.com/quills

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Doug Wright is an American playwright from Dallas Texas. He was born in 1962. He received his bachelors degree from Yale University in 1985 and his MFA from New York University. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play “I Am My Own Wife”. He is also a member of the Dramatist Guild and serves on the of New York Theatre Workshop. He has written musicals and screenplays including the screenplay for Quills which garnered Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. He currently resides in New York City with his husband David Clement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wright

PUBLICATION/ LICENSING AND RIGHTS

Dramatists Play Service INC.
Originally produced in New York by the New York Theatre Workshop (1995)licensing and rights- Dramatists Play Service, INC.