Best Revenge: How Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

Stephen Fife is a playwright, memoirist, and humorist who is based in New York and Los Angeles. He was an associate of the late avant-garde dramatist Joseph Chaikin, and his book gives a penetrating glimpse into Chaikin at work. Best Revenge is the story of a young creative soul who overcomes rejection and hardship to realize his dream--a collaboration with Joseph Chaikin (who directs the author¿s adaptation of a controversial play by Sholem Asch). Best Revenge is by turns sweet and bitter. It balances the sorrow and frustration of always too imperfect art and the inevitable death of one's comrades with laugh-out-loud humor. Fife gives a telling picture of American theater and of his own struggle as an artist. He also shows us a contemporary America that is outrageous, nonsensical, and sympathetic by turns. Best Revenge includes the full playscript of the author's adaptation of God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch.Stephen Fife is the author of 'Best Revenge: How Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since', published 2005 under ISBN 9781885942104 and ISBN 1885942109.