Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
by Eric Bogosian

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
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Author: Eric Bogosian
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN: 1559362022
Number of pages: 72
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Book Reviews of Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Book Review: OUT AND OUT ROCK AND ROLL!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This guy just keeps getting better and sharper. The book, like the performance, is fast, furious, angry, and doesn't care what you think, just as long as you think. I'd have to say that half of it could be perceived as more of the same, but it would be shortsighted to dismiss it as such. This is intensely focused on the mentality of the public at large like a magnifying glass in the sun torching an ant. It's more than a dissection of the follies of materialism and fame. He spoons out the heartless soul of it and puts on display for all to witness like an audience holding court for a lynching. It's the out and out truth. And through his 10 or so monologues, he hurls that brick through the glass houses of smoke and mirror. Knock yourself out. You decide. Love him. Hate him. He'll kick your [butt] either way.

Summary of Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

100% pure high octane Bogosian.

Bogosian's latest and greatest monologue.

"His wit is as venomous as ever, his material even more devastating and polished than before."?New York Daily News

"Bogosian hasn't simply crossed the line of good taste, he has snorted it."?The Daily Texan

Wake Up is Bogosian's meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. Once again the author offers a blisteringly funny and dead-on take of the chaos and alienation of post-modern life in the U. S. of the year 2000. As Michael Feingold so ably offered in his Village Voice review?"Bogosian is there, watching out for the downtrodden, ridiculing the arrogant rich, defending battered wives and neo-hippie hitchhikers and never losing sight of his own capacity for being classed among the batters and bullies. But his 95 minutes is as fast and exciting a read as the theatre community offers. In our time, the stage has almost been what classical thinkers saw it as, a medium for criticizing life. How perfect that a solo performer should rediscover its roots, by choosing his own life as the object of his criticism."

Eric Bogosian, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, has performed his plays and monologues at venues nationwide. Winner of Obie and Drama Desk Awards, he has made four films of his work, most notably Talk Radio and Suburbia. His novel Mall was recently published by Simon and Schuster.

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