When Will Eno’s one-person play Thom Pain opened in New York in February 2005, it became something rare—an unqualified hit. Before that, the play was a critical success in London and received the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Dubbed “stand-up existentialism” by the New York Times, this monologue is both lyrical and deadpan, sardonic and sincere. It is Thom Pain—in the camouflage of the common man—fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light. This revised edition will be published in conjunction with a revival production at Signature Theatre in New York in the fall of 2018, starring Michael C. Hall.
