Bøker av Lydia Stryk

A high-level intelligence officer and his wife welcome a cultural attaché from a foreign country into their home and into their lives. The result is a triangle of danger and passion. A play about secrets and what they do to those who possess them.

A woman is run over and critically injured. The driver appears at her bedside. There are encounters in life that take you somewhere you've never been and never meant to go."Lydia Stryk's compelling AN ACCIDENT ... is a fictionalized account of the recovery process the playwright herself went through after [an] accident seven years ago, but it's equally the drama of something Stryk was denied - coming to terms with the man who hit her. In an acting pas de deux ... Libby's recovery is mirrored by that man's wrestle with his guilt and responsibility. The sharply defined stages of her progress occur within the context of their wary, forthright, prickly, warm, confrontational and erotically charged interactions ... the spare, concentrated poetry of Stryk's language. [And] the degree to which [the character] makes us feel her physical struggle in our own bodies makes her sinuous progress ... our triumph, too." -Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle"... a visceral and emotional story about recovery, memories, and even the discovery of self. Introspective at times, and often seething with cynical humor, AN ACCIDENT is uncompromisingly human ... [The play] takes us on a roller-coaster of emotion. It's all here: guilt, sorrow, remorse, fear, shame, longing, desire ... Its truth cannot be denied. It's powerful and riveting theater." -Clinton Stark, StarkSilverCreek"Lydia Stryk's play is a pounding two-person drama with utterly compelling pile drivers of empathy for the characters and surprisingly good humor ..." -Albert Goodwyn, San Francisco Examiner"AN ACCIDENT has a harrowing sense of truth that is hard to shake. With her stark, poetic language, Stryk captures the frailty of life and the omnipresence of mortality in everyday activities ..." -Karen D'Souza, San Jose Mercury News

A brutal account of the effect of the Iraq war and past wars on soldiers and military families. What is the legacy of war on the home front? How do we best serve our country?"Does anyone remember David Rabe's STICKS AND BONES? ... The play was a hard-hitting commentary on the then-raging Vietnam War ... Before anybody mounts a revival that would comment on our own times of war and the serious injuries that present-day soldiers sustain, they should take a look at Lydia Stryk's powerful new drama AMERICAN TET ... In these times, we need a hard-hitting play like this one ... It's the finest drama I've seen in months." -Peter Filichia, TheatreMania.com"AMERICAN TET ... treats the Iraq war much as MACBIRD, OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR and Platoon did Vietnam. It's as subtle as napalm." -Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune"Stryk's AMERICAN TET is as raw and discomforting as a frequently chafed sore ... and brings reality to a career military family grappling with the special self-sacrifices, denial, acceptance and questioning that goes with serving in our country's armed forces during an unpopular war." -Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"Juxtaposing one American generation's experience in Vietnam with today's involvement in Iraq makes an emotionally affecting statement about the impact of public policy on private lives. Lydia Stryk raises issues without pretending that there are simple answers." -Brad Hathaway, Potomac Stages