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Plays and Playwrights 2005

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The Mill 6 Collaborative, a small theatre company in Boston has had the pleasure of producing a number of plays from the Plays & Playwrights Series; Starting with Cafe Society by Robert Simonson Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium through to Match by Marc Chun Plays and Playwrights 2002 . We always look forward to the new publications and love the breadth and outstanding quality of selection!

Without a doubt, there is a Renaissance happening in the Off-Off Broadway community right now. Groups of consistency exciting and truly innovative work such as Partial Comfort Productions, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, Les Freres Corbusier, Youngblood, Boomerang, Redbull, and others are pushing the definition of what a young company can do on the fringes of Broadway and are quickly showing that they can do it just as well with a smaller budget. It's theatre that's pulling in more younger and more audacious crowds, reminding us that theatre does not have to be a place for just the wealthy and pretentious, but it can and is about us too. Martin Denton and NYTheatre.com have gone a good way towards helping this new rebirth of theatre happen and this book series, as well as their website, stands as one of the sole pieces of documentation of the rapidfire growth of these fresh, imaginative, and sometimes deliberately outrageous groups destined for legendary status. Each year, the books just keep getting better and PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2005 is no exception. All the plays are exciting, unique, and engrossing. They prove that the art of theatre is alive and well. I highly recommend picking up this book and going out and checking out more Indie theatre. It'll be the stuff you will tell your friends about in the years to come. Particular highlights in PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2005 include "Vampire Cowboy Trilogy"; "Animal"; "Elephant"; "Platonov! Platonov! Platonov! or the Case of a Very Angry Duck".