CJ Hopkins is a contemporary American

United States

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 playwright

Playwright

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. He is best known for his 1992 play

Play (theatre)

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, Horse Country which won numerous awards, including Best Play of Edinburgh 2002, Scotsman Best of the Firsts Award 2002 (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Best of The Adelaide Fringe 2004 (Adelaide Fringe Festival

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).

Mr. Hopkins' work is typified by existential

Existentialism

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 explorations of American culture, consumerism

Consumerism

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, capitalism

Capitalism

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, authority

Authority

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, and the human condition

Human condition

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. His work is often darkly comedic, leaving the audience with more questions than answers.

Official Webpage: cjhopkins.com.

List of creative works

• Horse Country
• screwmachine/eyecandy, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Bob
• cunnilinguistics
• How To Entertain the Rich
• The Installation
• A Place Like This
• The Extremists

See also

• Off-Off-Broadway
  Off-Off-Broadway
  Off-Off-Broadway theatrical productions in New York City are those in theatres that are smaller than Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres. Off-Off-Broadway theaters are often defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats, though the term can be used for any show in the New York City area that...
  
  
• Postmodern theater
  Postmodern theater
  Postmodern theatre is a recent phenomenon in world theatre, coming as it does out of the postmodern philosophy that originated in Europe in the middle of the twentieth century. Postmodern theatre emerged as a reaction against modernist theatre...
  
  
• Post-structuralism
  Post-structuralism
  Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s...