The House That Will Not Stand
Winner of a 2019 Obie Awards for Playwriting.
“When you hear a drum beat as you’re watching Marcus Gardley’s THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND…sit up and pay attention. It’s likely to be the prelude to a flash of wondrousness. Drums are what herald two extraordinary monologues in this…comic drama…Their percussive insistence shapes two separate instances when both a character and the play…soar into a stratosphere of freedom.” —The New York Times.
“THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND is built on extraordinarily rich soil, in terms of both historical fact and fictional plot, both intricacy of language and depth of character…The New Yorker has described Gardley as ‘the heir to García Lorca, Pirandello, and Tennessee Williams,’ and like the last of those writers, the playwright has a penchant for knitting together poetic flights with sharp, sassy social observation…” —New York Magazine.
