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In this volume, Mac Wellman presents the 11 plays that he considers his most important, including Albanian Softshoe, Mister Original Bugg, Cleveland and Bad Penny.
Extraordinary, action-oriented, off-the-beaten path monologues for women.
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This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Essays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater
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This new volume of interviews with contemporary playwrights attests to the fact the dramatic art is alive and well in America and celebrates the art and talent of fifteen of the theatre's most important artists. In extensive interviews, they discuss their work, influences and their craft and how the art form relates to our cultural heritage, as well as the state of theatre-its-meaning and purposes as we approach the 21st Century. David Savran lays out their remarkable achievements and provides telling insights to their work in his substantial introductions to each interview. Interviews with: Edward Albee Jon Robin Baitz Philip Kan Gotanda Holly Hughes Tony Kushner Terrence McNally Suzan-Lori Parks José Rivera Ntozake Shange Nicky Silver Anna Deavere Smith Paula Vogel Wendy Wasserstein Mac Wellman and George C. Wolfe.
Two profane aliens have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award-winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance. In 2003, The Village Voice gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mac Wellman: "... [he] has long situated himself on the frontier of new forms. He's not only an experimental dramatist of the first rank, but also an eloquent champion of the avant-garde ... Like Beckett's characters, the figures in his work inhabit both a purely theatrical world and a space that will not let you forget the social realities compounding the existential mystery." "In SINCERITY ...