Belleville Author:Amy Herzog One of the New York Times's Top Ten Plays of 2011."A quietly devastating new play . . . both heartbreaking and hair-raising . . . one of the most suspenseful plays in years."?The New York TimesA young American couple has abandoned a comfortable post-graduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural Parisian neighbor... more »hood, and their fraught relationship begins to unravel as secrets are revealed in this nail-biting psychological thriller. Here, the Obie Award-winning Amy Herzog looks at the limits of trust, truth, deception, and dependency in a world where love and loss can be pathological and cathartic. Belleville received its world premiere at Yale Rep in 2011, New York City premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in winter 2013, and will be produced by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in the summer of 2013.Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays have been produced or developed at the Yale School of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theater, Arena Stage, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Playwrights Horizons, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her critically acclaimed works include 4000 Miles, After the Revolution, and The Great God Pan.« less