“Nearly everything about David Adjmi’s Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." –Time Out New York
This volume of distinctive work includes
Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride’s world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper;
Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and
Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue.
David Adjimi’s other plays include
Marie Antoninette,
3C,
Strange Attractions, and
Caligula. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, among others.
Stunning was selected to appear in The 2012 Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays. His as-yet-untitled memoir is forthcoming from Harper Collins. Adjimi is a member of New Dramatists, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Julliard School. This is his first play collection.