Description
In addition to Bloodball, a satiric romp through the delusions of mass games and media sport, J. G. Van Tine’s works include A Passion for Disaster, The Culture Contract, Balzac in Brazil, and The Forbidden Self. The present two-volume edition of A Passion for Disaster offers a challenging selection of his work for the theater, including The House of Tolstoy, H. Melville, Whaler, and Assassination Games. These dramas are exceptional in engaging perverse motives, denied energies and entrapment tactics in their social and intimate hiding places: in politics and family, on the job, in secret fantasies, among children, before the mirror, behind ambitions, and in bed.
