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Plays and Playwrights 2004 [Paperback]

Martin Denton (Editor)
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Plays and Playwrights February 2004
An anthology of ten plays by emerging playwrights produced in New York City during the 2002-03 season. Complete text, permission information, production notes and author biographies are included. The ten plays are:

Sugarbaby by Frank Cwiklik
A young woman runs away from home in search of the real America – and finds it – in this brilliantly epic satire of contemporary values in the USA.

WTC View by Brian Sloan
A smart and incisive drama depicting life in Lower Manhattan just after 9/11, as seen through the eyes of a young man who advertises for a new roommate on the night before the terrorist attacks.

United States: Work and Progress by Christy Meyer, Jon Schumacher and Ellen Shanman
A fascinating docudrama about three members of the Humanoid Robotics Group at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

The Shady Maids of Haiti by John Jahnke
The Haitian slave uprising of 1803 is the backdrop for this potent and disarming examination of sexual, racial, and gender politics.

Cats Can See The Devil by Tom X. Chao
A bizarrely eclectic puppet show morphs into a kaleidoscopic tour inside the mind of an obsessive performing artist in this hilarious send-up and celebration of fringe theatre.

Survivor: Vietnam! by Rob Reese
This ripe, ribald parody of reality television puts a group of eager contestants in the middle of the War in Vietnam, where they vie for a $1 million grand prize.

Feed The Hole by Michael Stock
Six twenty-somethings fill the void of their meaningless lives through sex, drugs, and Crunch-Ohs in this affecting, articulate, and incisive dramatic comedy.

Auntie Mayhem by David Pumo
This warm, wise, and funny play is about a gay man and his partner who become foster parents to three gay/transgender teens.

The Monster Tales by Mary Jett Parsley
In this lovely and fantastical fable, a young woman discovers her singular humanity when a monster appears from under her bed one night.

Sun, Stand Thou Still by Steven Gridley
A hitchhiker, a cop, a lady selling apples, and a man journeying eternally westward cross paths in this rich, enigmatic drama of escape and discovery.

The volume includes a critical introductory essay by Martin Denton, theatre critic for the popular Internet site, nytheatre.com. Also included is a foreword by Kirk Wood Bromley, author of Midnight Brainwash Revival, The American Revolution and, Lost.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (February 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0967023459
  • ISBN-13: 978-0967023458
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,976,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I'm the founder and editor of nytheatre.com, a website that provides lots of information about the New York City theatre scene, from Broadway to off-Broadway to the exciting indie theater sector. It was as editor of nytheatre.com that I became interested in bringing new American plays by emerging or unpublished authors to the attention of readers in the "Plays and Playwrights" anthology series. I've been working on nytheatre.com since 1997. I'm also the producer of nytheatrecast, the first weekly podcast series about NYC theatre. I'm a member of the American Theatre Critics Association; I probably see about 300 shows every year. Last year I was proud to receive (with NYTE's Managing Director) the Stewardship Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, in recognition of my work on nytheatre.com and as editor of the "Plays and Playwrights" books.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tom X. Chao's play is worth the price by itself, March 19, 2004
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I haven't gotten hold of the book yet, but I've seen Tom X. Chao's "Cats Can See The Devil" twice now (first at the New York International Fringe Festival, and then during its subsequent standalone run), and it's one of my all-time favorite plays -- highly original and surprising, and (if you appreciate nerdy eccentricity) exceptionally funny. I'm not familiar with the other entries, but the opportunity to read Chao's wonderful, unique play is reason enough to grab this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great compilation for everyone!, September 12, 2004
This review is from: Plays and Playwrights 2004 (Paperback)
This is a great variety of new, exciting plays. I have not read them all yet, but the ones I have read, I enjoyed immensely. Sugarbaby is hilarious, WTC View is so vivid, I felt I was there, Auntie Mayhem is a lot of fun, and Survivor: Vietnam! literally kept me laughing nonstop, so far this is my favorite. This book is a great source of entertainment and information for just about every type of reader or actor.
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