Peter Coy

A House in the Country and Other Plays Peter Coy

A House in the Country and Other Plays is a collection of five plays by the award-winning playwright Peter Coy. Coy's plays explore chaos, emotional discord and, ultimately, redemption as his characters confront disorder, wrestle with love and struggle with the effects of trauma and loss. Coy tackles these issues with a mixture of psychological realism, offbeat humor, musicality and theatrical inventiveness.

Each of the five plays in this collection embody Coy's ongoing search for the right form of theatrical expressiveness to reveal his characters, their worlds, stories, and their ultimate redemption.

As Charter Theatre founder Richard Washer puts it in his introduction to the book, Coy's writing becomes a blueprint for seeing these stories come to life on stage. The collection includes A House in the Country, Will's Bach, The Gift of the Magi, Poe & All That Jazz, and A Shadow of Honor. Coy won The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for A House in the Country at the 2001 Helen Hayes Awards.