{ "item_title" : "Enterprise", "item_author" : [" Brian Parks "], "item_description" : " Run GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS through a Monty Python spin cycle and you might get Brian Parks's kinetic farce ENTERPRISE, an absurdist express train of comic corporate-speak... Four ambitious businessmen in a skyscraper--the bespectacled Weaver, the fresh-faced Sanders, the somewhat dim Owens and the experienced Landry--entertain big dreams of impressing the unseen chairman of their imperiled company with a proposal that will send profit margins into the stratosphere. But over a night the men spend collaborating, then pairing off into two rival factions, their hopes rise and fall in a stream of bluster, invective and recriminations. Their exchanges arrive in a succession of 45 rapid-fire blackouts, many introduced with pings and other audio snippets that suggest, say, a text alert, or a news-radio bulletin, or an office copier. Among the many concerns preoccupying these fatuous climbers are the suspiciousness of uncentered mimeographs; the smell of diminishing value; the Depression-era allure of jumping out a window; and the perceived vulnerability of office toilet stalls. Conspicuously absent from the discussions are mentions of home, family or women--as spouses, relatives or colleagues. (Astrology is astronomy for girls, says Landry dismissively.) No surprise there: These men live only to compete with and impress one another (and their boss). No one else has any place in their displays of would-be brainpower and self-consuming testosterone. ...The true star is Mr Parks's dialogue: If a joke doesn't hit its mark (and some are simple non sequiturs), another one lands before you have time to notice. Mr Parks, a former theater editor at The Village Voice and an ex-chairm an of the Obie Awards, is noted for the fast pace of his work. ENTERPRISE comes off a 2017 run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Scotsman Fringe First Award. The playwright's hapless executives may not qualify for a raise, but his ENTERPRISE merits a promotion. Andy Webster, The New York Times", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/88/145/797/0881457973_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.95", "online_price" : "15.95", "our_price" : "15.95", "club_price" : "15.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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