Thom Pain (based on nothing) [TCG Edition]

From the last lonely wilderness the dark corner of these overlit times in the camouflage of the common man Thom Pain takes the stage. With terrible timing and impeccable regret over-educated in the wrong ways and wounded in the right ones he appears. Teeth bared as he picks a piece of lint off his suit. Listen to the language writhe as he tries to say hello. Meet Thom Pain. A man who had by his own reckless reckoning three or four things happen to him in life. A man who is by his own admittedly uninformed admission a man much like a man or woman like you. When Will Enos one-person play Thom Pain opened in New York in February 2005 it became something rarean unqualified hit which soon extended through July. Before that the play was a critical success in London and received the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Dubbed stand-up existentialism by the New York Times it is lyrical and deadpan both sardonic and sincere. It is Thom Painin the camouflage of the common manfumbling with his heart squinting into the light. Astonishing in its impact. . . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also in its odd bewitching beauty an affirmation of lifes worth.Charles Isherwood The New York Times Eno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure.David Cote TimeOut New York Will Eno is one of the finest younger playwrights Ive come across in a number of years. His work is inventive disciplined and at the same time wild and evocative.Edward Albee Will Eno lives in Brooklyn New York. His plays include The Flu Season Tragedy: a tragedy King: a problem play and Intermission. His plays have been produced in London by the Gate Theatre and BBC Radio and in the United States by Rude Mechanicals and Naked Angels. His play The Flu Season recently won the Oppenheimer Award presented by NY Newsday for the previous years best debut production in New York by an American playwright.