The Best Short Plays 1982


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This 15th anniversary edition demonstrates that the finest contemporary plays often appear in one-act form. This year's collection includes plays by Lanford Wilson, David Edgar, Mary Gallagher, Percy Granger, Samuel Shem and others. Also includes a cumulative index of plays and playwrights appearing in The Best Short Plays, 1968-82.




The Best Short Plays 1989


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(Applause Books). A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: "The Author's Voice," "San Antonio Sunset," "There is No John Garfield," "The Mask of Hiroshima," "Penguin Blues," "Haiku," "Chemical Reactions," "Dolores," "April Snow," "Trout" and "A Poster of the Cosmos."




The Best Short Plays, 1988-1989


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(Applause Books). Lose yourself in a universe of forces familiar and frightening in the 21 plays presented in this exclusive volume. The playwrights included here succeed in pushing back the boundaries of conventional dramatic expression. Among them, Lanford Wilson dissects a survivor's anguish after his lover's death in A Poster of the Cosmos and Deborah Pryor spins an eerie tale of spellbinding romance in The Love Talker . Richard Greenberg plots a battle of wills between a young writer and his elusive muse, while Sheila Walsh examines the exchange of a woman's soul for her husband's fame in Molly and James . From the starkly realistic to the fantastic, these plays challenge their audiences to confront the universal from a new perspective.




The Best Short Plays 1986


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(Applause Books). "These are sharp, tightly constructed pieces with small casts, as readable as they are actable just the sort of thing community players and other small ensembles will find practical." Booklist




The Best American Short Plays 1989


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(Best American Short Plays). A collection of eleven short plays from 1989. Includes: "The Author's Voice" Richard Greenberg; "San Antonio Sunset" Willy Holtzman; "There Is No John Garfield" Ernest A. Joselovitz; "The Mask of Hiroshima" Ernest Ferlita; "Penguin Blues" Ethan Phillips; "Haiku" Katherine Snodgrass; "Chemical Reactions" Andrew Foster; "Dolores" Edward Allan Baker; "April Snow" Romulus Linney; "Trout" William R. Lewis; "A Poster of the Cosmos" Lanford Wilson.




The Best American Short Plays 1990


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A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.




The Best Short Plays


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The Best Short Plays, 1984


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1. Nice people dancing to good country music, Lee Blessing 2. The other woman, Casey Kelly 3. partners, David Higgins 4. Present tense, John McNamara 5. F.M., Romulus Linney 6. Juvie, Jerome McDonough 7. Bartok as dog, Patrick Tovatt 8. In place, Corinne Jacker 9. Self torture and strenuous exercise, Harry Kondoleon 10. Chug, Ken Jenkins.




The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996


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A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.




The Best American Short Plays 1992-1993


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A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.