The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011
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The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011

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eBook - ePub

The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011

About this book

Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989, the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity, and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future." From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. This volume, Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor, illustrates how well the short story play can grapple with the many dimensions of love. The selected plays present unique perspectives on the wide range of love's impact on our lives, each giving a thoroughly modern twist to the idea that life would be so much easier (but also much less interesting) if we could only avoid love's mercurial influence.

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Information

Publisher
Applause
Year
2000
eBook ISBN
9781557839725

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: Love, the Strange Attractor
  5. The Subtext of Texting
  6. The Request
  7. It’s Only a Minute a Guy
  8. Thread Count
  9. Dissonance
  10. Creatures
  11. The Coyote Stratagem
  12. Chocolates on the Pillow
  13. And Yet . . .
  14. A Song for Me, or Getting the Oscar
  15. Scar Tissue
  16. Snowbound
  17. Eleanor’s Passing
  18. A Marriage Proposal
  19. Till Death Do Us
  20. A Number on the Roman Calendar
  21. Six Dead Bodies Duct-Taped to a Merry-Go-Round
  22. Starfishes
  23. St. Matilde’s Malady
  24. Lobster Boy
  25. You’re Invited!
  26. Acknowledgments