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What a Man Weighs

Sherry Kramer
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Winner of the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the Marvin Taylor Playwriting Award, and a Time Magazine Best Bet

Description

There is a rule in book conservation: You must never do something perfectly. Perfection is forgery. Once a book is torn, the tear cannot be erased. Joan dreams of the man who will erase all her imperfections, even though she’s sure that’s against all the rules of love, too. She decides to fall for a seductive psychopath whom she knows can make her perfect — but she doesn’t know the price she will have to pay.

Production Info

Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 105 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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Reviews

Press Quotes

“WHAT A MAN WEIGHS is a contemporary romantic comedy with some serious things to say about sexual politics. Sherry Kramer’s play is about a womanizer and the women around him in a book conservation lab at a large university. Book restoration is compared with life … We’re reminded that people’s lives are like the pages of a book — everything leaves its mark … WHAT A MAN WEIGHS weighs in as worth seeing.”—Leida Snow, 1010 WINS (radio)

“Sherry Kramer’s astringent Off-Broadway play starts out as blunt, confrontational feminism, but its view of sexual politics becomes more and more complex, funny, and biting.” —Time

About the Author

Author

  • Sherry Kramer

    Sherry Kramer's work has been seen at theaters across the country and abroad, including the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York's Second Stage, Woolly Mammoth, and The Theater of the First Amendment. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and an MFA in Playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She was the first national member of New Dramatists. She is also an affiliated writer at The Playwright's Center. She is a recipient of NEA, New York Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwriting Award, and a New York Drama League Award (WHAT A MAN WEIGHS), the LA Women in Theater New Play Award (THE WALL OF WATER), the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH), and commissions from The Moscow Arts Theatre/Iowa International Workshop (THE DREAM HOUSE) and the Audrey Skirball Kenis Foundation (THE MAD MASTER). Other plays include: WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS, HOW WATER BEHAVES, THINGS THAT BREAK, A THING OF BEAUTY, ABOUT SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, NAPOLEON'S CHINA (music theatre piece with Ann Haskell and Rebecca Newton), THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (music theatre adaptation with composer Margaret Pine), THE RELEASE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE, PARTIAL OBJECTS, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, HOLD FOR THREE, CAKE, NANO AND NICKI IN BOCA RATON, IVANHOE, AMERICA, THE LONG ARMS OF JUPITER, THE RULING PASSION, THE END OF RADIO, THE LAW MAKES EVENING FALL, and THE BAY OF FUNDY: AN ADAPTATION OF ONE LINE FROM THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 12/1/2010
Pages 84
ISBN 9780881454406

Special Notes

Special Notes

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First produced by Second Stage Theater, New York

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What a Man Weighs is produced
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