Plays

For over 60 years, The Best American Short Plays series has set the standard for excellence in one-act plays. In this latest edition, we are pleased to present a group of fresh-voiced, cutting-edge plays for the new millenium. Among the twelve plays included are Sheri Wilner's poignant Relative Strangers, which chronicles a young woman's yearning for the mother she never knew; Gary Sunshine's lyrical Al Takes a Bride, in which two young southern women fantasize about marrying each other; Rosemary Moore's The Pain of Pink Evenings, which charts the emotional terrain of a grieving young widow; Brian Silberman's Walkin' Backwards, in which an outcast teenage boy runs away from home on the day of his mother's funeral; and Laurence Klavan's darkly humorous The Summer Sublet, which probes an unexpected affair between a young man and his landlord. From 19th century Memphis to present-day Washington DC, from sexual politics to coming of age, the plays in this volume are sure to inspire, challenge and entertain.

Scripts for 13 short plays, including: Patricia Bosworth's Making Contact, Terrence McNally's Prelude and Liebestod, Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee, Joyce Carol Oates' Tone Clusters, Shel Silverstein's The Devil and Billy Markham, Migdalia Cruz' Dreams of Home, Frank D. Gilroy's A Way with Words, A.R. Gurney's The Open Meeting, Arthur Kopit's Success, Randy Noojin's You Can't Trust the Male, Suzan-Lori Park's Snails, Murray Schisgal's Extensions, and Jean-Claude Van Itallie and Joseph Chaikin's Struck Dumb.

Scripts for 16 short plays complete with bios on each author. Titles include: Aryan Birth Bondage A Couple with a Cat The Cowboy, the Indian and the Fervent Feminist Dreamers The Drowning of Manhattan It's Our Town, Too Jolly Little Red Riding Hood Night Baseball Pitching to the Star The Sausage Eaters Show The Tack Room The Valentine Fairy Watermelon Rinds.

Christopher Durang Craig Fols J.E. Franklin David Mamet Steve Martin Elaine May Max Mitchell Rich Orloff Jacquelyn Reingold Ronald Ribman Murray Schisgal Jules Tasca Thornton Wilder Doug Wright.

Christopher Durang Craig Fols J.E. Franklin David Mamet Steve Martin Elaine May Max Mitchell Rich Orloff Jacquelyn Reingold Ronald Ribman Murray Schisgal Jules Tasca Thornton Wilder Doug Wright.

Scripts for 12 short plays complete with bios on each author. Includes: Fitting Rooms (Susan Cinoman) Scribe's Paradox, or The Mechanical Rabbit (Michael Feingold) Home Section (Janusz Glowacki) Degas, C'est Moi (David Ives) The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Allan Knee) Old Blues (Jonathon Levy) Dearborn Heights (Cassandra Medley) American Dreamers (Lavonne Mueller) When It Comes Early (John Ford Noonan) The Original Last Wish Baby (William Seebring) The Mystery School (Paul Selig) The Sandalwood Box (Mac Wellman).

Scripts for 12 short plays complete with bios on each author. Includes: Misreadings (Neena Beber) The Rehearsal: A Fantasy (J. Rufus Caleb) The Vacuum Cleaner (Edward de Grazia) Mrs. Sorken (Christopher Durang) Four Walls (Gus Edwards) I'm With Ya, Duke (Herb Gardner) My Medea (Susan Hansell) I Didn't Know You Could Cook (Rich Orloff) Tunnel of Love (Jacquelyn Reingold) Fifty Years Ago (Murray Schisgal) Your Everday Ghost Story (Lanford Wilson) Wildwood Park (Doug Wright). Hardcover.

Includes: Misreadings (Neena Beber) Mrs. Sorken (Christopher Durang) I Didn't Know You Could Cook (Rich Orloff) Your Everyday Ghost Story (Lanford Wilson) and more.

Scripts for 10 short plays, including: Bellyfruit Little Airplanes of the Heart The Most Massive Woman Wins The White Guy Time Flies The Confession of Many Strangers OEDI Creative Development The Man Who Couldn't Stop Crying The Trio.

Ideal for school reading and workshop productions. Contains: Bellyfruit (Bernhard, Blinkoff and Borrus) The Most Massive Women Wins (Madeline George) Time Flies (David Ives) Creative Development (Jacquelyn Reingold) and more!