Belleville

Amy Herzog's plays include Mary Jane (Yale Repertory Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, 2017; Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 2018); The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons, 2012); Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011; Donmar Warehouse, 2017; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); 4000 Miles (Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, 2011; Lincoln Center Theater, 2012; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Obie Award for the Best New American Play) and After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 2010).She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award.

'The beauty of Belleville is that while it arrives at a place of horror, which in lesser hands might smack of implausible melodrama, it never slackens its grip on truth… what makes it so disquieting – and accomplished – is that we're witness to the accumulative power of subtle nudges – each eggs the other on, wittingly and unwittingly, towards a primeval forest of fear, hurt and rage'