Bibliography

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Published plays

Aunt Dan and Lemon.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1986. [Acting edition; with foreword and afterword.] ISBN 0822200767
New York: Grove Press, 1989. ISBN 0802151035
The Designated Mourner.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 (hardcover).
New York: Noonday Press, 1998 (paperback). ISBN 0374525269
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2003. [Acting edition.] ISBN 0822218488
The Fever.
New York: Noonday Press, 1991. ISBN 080214070X
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1991. [Acting edition.] ISBN 0822203987
Four Plays (A Thought in Three Parts; Marie and Bruce; Aunt Dan and Lemon; The Fever).
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ISBN 0374525358
The Hotel Play.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1982. [Acting edition; with author's note.] ISBN 0822205343
The Mandrake. By Niccolo Macchiavelli, translated by Shawn.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1998. [Acting edition.] ISBN 0822207281
Marie and Bruce.
New York: Grove Press, 1987. Reissued 1988. Introduction by John Kennedy Toole. ISBN 0802130186
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1987. [Acting edition.] ISBN 0822207346
My Dinner With Andre: A Screenplay. (With Andre Gregory.)
New York: Grove Press, 1981. ISBN 0802130631
Wallace Shawn: Plays One (Aunt Dan and Lemon; Marie and Bruce; The Fever; A Thought in Three Parts).
New York: Faber and Faber, 1997. ISBN 0571190928

Articles

"Fragments from a Diary". The Nation, March 31, 2003.
Notes from the months leading up to the Second Gulf War. "Meanwhile, I read my New York Times, and it's all very calm. The people who write there seem to have a need to believe that their government, while sometimes wrong, of course, is not utterly insane, and must at least be trusted to raise the right questions. These writers just can't bear the thought of being completely alienated from the center of their society, their own government."
"The Dangerous Restaurant". The Nation, October 28, 2002.
The state of the world considered as a small room full of heavily armed people trying to mind their own business. "When the strongest, most successful and most ruthless person in a group claims to be taking some particularly nasty and aggressive action against another member of the group because he claims to be afraid of them, it's sometimes hard to take him seriously—especially if, instead of looking fearful, he seems to have an excited smile on his face, as if he were having the time of his life."
Letter. The Nation, February 4, 2002.
Shawn responds briefly to criticism that "The Foreign Policy Therapist" lacked "compassion": "The patient is armed and dangerous and is killing people between sessions."
"The Foreign Policy Therapist". The Nation, December 3, 2001. (Also printed in The Guardian, December 3, 2001.)
The United States of America asks the therapist for advice: "I don't know what to do. I want to be safe. I want safety. But I have a terrible problem..."
"Mission: possible". Interview, April 1997.
Interview by Shawn with actor Vanessa Redgrave (who is now filming The Fever) on current political trends and the function of theater artists in a troubled world.
See also links, for online interviews not available in print.

Other Publications

Final Edition.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004. ISBN 1583226842
One-shot magazine edited by Shawn, with political commentary, fiction, and poetry by Noam Chomsky, Deborah Eisenberg, Jonathan Schell, Shawn, and Mark Strand. Released just before the US presidential election.
Publisher's page, with excerpt

Writings about Shawn

King, W.D. Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. ISBN 1566395178
My description and review of the book
"Stage Leftish", The New York Times, January 11, 2004.
Brief interview by Deborah Solomon.
"It's a Shawn Thing", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), October 13, 2002.
Profile and interview on the occasion of a Shawn festival in Melbourne.
"Wally Shawn's Years of Living 'Dangerously'", Toronto Sun, November 4, 1997.
Profile and interview by Bruce Kirkland.
"The Masked Avenger" , The New York Review of Books, August 13, 1998.
Essay on Shawn's political plays, by Fintan O'Toole. Full article requires subscription.
"20 Questions", Philadelphia City Paper, June 19, 1997.
Brief interview following the release of the film of The Designated Mourner.
"The Secret Life of Wally Shawn", Esquire, 1983.
Profile by Don Shewey, following the release of My Dinner with Andre. Very thorough.