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Seeing your feet above the earth

Seeing your feet above the earth

On Lucas Hnath's Nightnight

Jun 18, 2020
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In this premium post, I’m discussing Nightnight, a half-hour play that you can listen to for free.

Lucas Hnath is widely known as one of the preeminent playwrights of his generation — he’s around 40 — and I first encountered his work because he wrote a play set in an evangelical church.

In 2015, Hnath’s play “The Christians” was running at Playwrights Hor…

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