The Guys

The Guys
Written by Anne Nelson
Date premiered January 17, 2002 (2002-01-17)
Place premiered The Flea Theater
New York City
Original language English

The Guys is a play by Anne Nelson about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. In the play, Joan, an editor, helps Nick, an FDNY captain, prepare the eulogies for an unprecedented number of firefighters who died under his command that day.[1] The play debuted off-Broadway at The Flea Theater on December 4, 2001, directed by Jim Simpson and starring Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray.

Since 2001, The Guys has been presented in 48 US states and in the Czech Republic, Argentina, Japan, Italy and Poland. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon presented it at the Edinburgh Festival. It enjoyed a commemorative rerun at the Flea Theater in 2006 on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. In parts of the theatrical run the two roles were played by Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver. They also star in a 2002 film adaptation, for which Weaver was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for best performance by an actress. The play was published by Dramatists Play Service and Random House in 2002. The audible.com recorded version, which featured Bill Irwin and Swoosie Kurtz, won an Audie Award for best recorded play of the year.

References

  1. ↑ "The Guys". Culture Vulture. May 22, 2003. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved 2006-10-01.
  • The Guys at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
  • CurtainUp Review
  • Broadway.com review
  • Columbia News
  • "Columbia University biography of Anne Nelson". Archived from the original on 2006-09-07.
  • Article written about cast member Tim Cummings


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