Publisher's Synopsis
A Passion for Disaster, Vol. I - Is the first of two volumes in a collection of plays written by J.G. Van Tine, author of "Bloodball" and "Balzac in Brazil."A Passion for Disaster offers a challenging selection of J. G. Van Tine's work for the theater. Within this volume include, The House of Tolstoy, Broken Toys, and Last Days in Vienna. These dramas engage perverse motives, denied energies and entrapment tactics in their social and intimate hiding places: in politics and family, on the job, in secret fantasies, among children, before the mirror, behind ambitions, and in bed.