THE FUNNY THING IS, I STILL LOVE THIS PLACE Opens Next Week

By: Sep. 05, 2015
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The Funny Thing Is, I Still Love This Place is about Vanna, a young woman who decides to marry a poor poet who works at a used bookstore. When Vanna's wealthy parents find out about the match, they determine to stop the marriage - and they enlist a rich friend's son to seduce Vanna back to her senses. Can true love survive an onslaught of consumer goods, foreign vacations, and unlimited electronics? Mark E. Leib's comedy is about life in contemporary commodity¬obsessed America, and about the chance that higher ideals have in the Ultimate Marketplace. Newsweek called Leib "a writer of slicing wit and intellectual velocity." The Funny Thing Is, I Still Love This Place is a play that every American will understand - and the best news is, it's very funny. Click here for tickets!

Mark E. Leib's plays and adaptations have been produced at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village (Art People), the Manhattan Punch Line (Terry by Terry), the American Repertory Theatre (Terry by Terry, The Marriage of Figaro, and Platonov) and at the Edinburgh and Singapore Theatre Festivals and elsewhere. In addition to writing plays and short stories, Leib is theatre critic for the alternative newspaper Creative Loafing in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Before joining the staff of Creative Loafing, Leib was named by that newspaper as the "Best Playwright" in the Tampa Bay area. Leib was the first playwriting lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Study at Harvard University in 1989¬90, and now teaches playwriting, fiction, and screenwriting at the University of South Florida and Eckerd College. Leib is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he won the CBS Foundation Prize in Playwriting.



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