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Hope & Nonthings Publishing is a company concerned with publishing works by punk rock musicians and Chicago playwrights and performers. To the best of our knowledge, no other publisher is specifically dedicated to this mission. By drawing from the two worlds of punk and performance, we hope to document the work of artists more often seen and heard than read.
Hunchback Variations (CD):
The Sounds and Music for the Production of The Hunchback Variations
sounds by Colm O’Reilly
The Incomplete Philosophy Of Hope And Nonthings
Selected plays by Ian pierce - aka: John Pierson - aka: Jughead
Half Li(v)es
Stories, Poems, and Monologues by performance artist Anita Loomis
Like Hell
First Novel by Ben Foster lead singer and lyricist for Screeching Weasel and Riverdales
An Apology For The Course And Outcome Of Certain Events Delivered By Doctor John Faustus On This His Final Evening and The Hunchback Variations
This two-play volume is the first published work by
Chicago actor and playwright Mickle Maher. Maher is a
co-founder of the experimental company Theater
Oobleck, which produced both plays
"An Apology" is a brilliant retelling of the Faust
legend. Dr. Faustus spends his final hour on earth
apologizing to the audience for leaving the writing of
his life to long-winded hacks and explaining how
Mephistopheles prevented him from recording his own
story for posterity.
In "The Hunchback Variations", Maher brings together
composer Ludwig van Beethoven and Quasimodo, the
Hunchback of Notre Dame, for a panel discussion on the
pitfalls of artistic collaboration. They reveal the
obstacles encountered in trying to create an enigmatic
sound called for by a stage direction in Anton
Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, among them, the
collaborators both being deaf, an unpleasant working
environment, and the fact that Beethoven never
finished reading Chekhov’s play.
Both of these funny, intelligent and inventive plays
have had several successful productions. "The
Hunchback Variations" has recently completed an
extended run in Chicago at the Lunar Cabaret, and "An
Apology" will be remounted in New York in November,
2001, after a well-received run during the New York
Fringe Festival
Weasels In A Box (a not so musical journey through partially truthful situations with eighty percent fictitious dialogue)
A novel by John R. Pierson - Jughead - ian pierce
-not available until January 2002
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