About the Book
A collection of contemporary one-act plays by 44 established writers: Koko Abe, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Jane Bowles, Richard Ford, David Hare, Vaclav Havel, Gert Hoffman, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, John Osborne, James Purdy, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard and Clive Exton , Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson , Christopher Durang, Robert Auletta Maria Irene Fornes, Edward Gorey, Richard Greenberg, John Guare, A.R.Gurney Jr., Beth Henley, Tina Howe, Garrison Keillor, Harry Kondoleon, Arthur Kopit, Carol S. Lashof, Romulus Linney, Grace McKeaney, Terrence McNally, Joseph McPhillips, Cassandra Medley, Jonathon Reynolds, Perry Souchuk, Lynne Alvarez, Andrew Vachss and Lanford Wilson.
Table of Contents:
"The man who turned into a stick", Donald Keene; "finding the sun", Edward Albee; "on Sundays", Lynne Alvarez; "stops", Robert Auletta; "jack pot melting - a commercial", Amiri Baraka; "Naomi in the living room", Christopher Durang; "American tropical", Richard Ford; "springtime", Maria Irene Fornes; "helpless doorknobs", Edward Gorey; "life under water", Richard Greenberg; "four baboons adoring the sun", John Guare; "the problem", A.R. Gurney, Jr; "the bay at Nice", David Hare; "protest", Vera Blackwell; "am I blue", Beth Henley; "our man in Madras", Gert Hofmann; "teeth", Tina Howe; "prodigal son", Garrison Keillor; "she talks to Beethoven", Adrienne Kennedy; "Linda Her", Harry Kondoleon; "success", Arthur Kopit; "Medusa's tale", Carol S. Lashof; "can can", Romulus Linney; "a life with no joy in it", David Mamet; "chicks", Grace McKeaney; "prelude and Liebestod", Terrence McNally; "camp contract", Joseph McPhillips; "waking women", Cassandra Medley; "the last Yankee", Arthur Miller; "tone clusters", Joyce Carol Oates; "a bond honored", John Osborne; "heatstroke", James Purdy; "lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, Part 2", Jonathon Reynolds; "the Cuban swimmer", Milcha Sanchez-Scott; excerpts from "slave of the camera", Sam Shepherd; "the pleasure of detachment", Perry Souchuk; "the boundary", Tom Stoppard and Clive Exton; "placebo", Andrew Vachss; "bye-bye Brevoort", Eudora Welty; "the chalky white substance", Tenessee Williams ; "testimonies", August Wilson; "the moonshot tape", Lanford Wilson; contributors; notes.
