The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014
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The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014

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The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014

About this book

For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights – Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others – who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.

The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks, and even a few delights. Uncertainty brings with it fear and insecurity, as well as nostalgic longing for the good old days, but for some, uncertainty means opportunity and along with it the prospect of change for the better. This volume explores various experiences of uncertainty and includes a series of nine plays gathered by Daniel Gallant, entitled Nine Signs of the Times, as well as short plays by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Daniel F. Levin, Quincy Long, Halley Feiffer, Caridad Svich, and Clay McLeod Chapman. This collection will be complemented by a range of plays from around the country by playwrights likewise observing and digesting the signs of the times. Together the plays of this volume work as a time capsule, capturing the fears and longings of a world on the verge and in the midst of big changes, hopefully for the better – but quite possibly for the worse.

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Information

Publisher
Applause
Year
2000
eBook ISBN
9781495035425

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: The Times They Are A-Changing
  3. Johnny & Rosie
  4. The Wet Echo
  5. This Side of New York
  6. Alt-Visions, Kiss Before Clouding
  7. I Didn’t Want a Mastodon
  8. iBaby
  9. Diminished Then Augmented
  10. Old Boyfriend
  11. Between
  12. A Match
  13. And Baby Makes Four
  14. Angel at My Door
  15. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  16. Journeys
  17. Variations on a Composition in Blue
  18. Let Rise
  19. Goodnight Lovin’ Trail
  20. Fractaland
  21. Right Sensation
  22. Ski Lift
  23. A Long Trip
  24. Actor
  25. Irish Stew
  26. Last Call
  27. Daffodils
  28. March Madness—Shhhhhh!