The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays: Volume One: 1 (Oberon Modern Playwrights) - Softcover

Bathsheba Doran; Will Eno; Itamar Moses; Jenny Schwartz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849431531 ISBN 13: 9781849431538

Publisher: Oberon Books, 2012

Synopsis

The four plays in this volume [are] fresh, original and distinctive. Each is verbally deft, and delights in language and its power to entertain, disturb, and just plain dazzle. Each is about human connection the pain and the difficulty of human connection. And each of these four plays is hopeful, and ultimately optimistic [...] four wonderful plays by four writers with bright pasts and bright futures... The United States is in a golden age of American playwriting whether we acknowledge it or not and the four talented writers in this volume strongly attest to that. André Bishop (from his Introduction)

Kin by Bathsheba Doran. 'Simply terrific. Perhaps the finest new play of the season. Funny and audacious, haunting, and exquisitely wrought.' Charles Isherwood, New York Times.

Completeness by Itamar Moses. 'A funny, ridiculously smart new play. I haven t seen another play recently that so perfectly captured love hot-blooded, fearless, fickle at this stage in life. I was left with nothing but admiration.' Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg News

Middletown by Will Eno. 'Middletown glimmers from start to finish with tart, funny, gorgeous little comments on big things: the need for love and forgiveness, the search for meaning in life, the long, lonely ache of disappointment.' Charles Isherwood, New York Times.

God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz. 'This ode to love, loss and the routines of life has the economy and dry wit of a Sondheim love song ... Schwartz is a real talent and she is trying something ambitious ... In [her] very modern way, [she is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word.' Jason Zinoman, New York Times.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Marie Healy's play What Once We Felt was a finalist for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. She is an affiliated artist with the Obie-Award winning theatre company Clubbed Thumb, with whom she has often collaborated over the last ten years, including productions and workshops of her plays Beach and Somewhere Someplace Else. Nick Jones is a performer and writer for theatre, television and film. His most recent play was the critically acclaimed Trevor. His previous play The Coward was nominated for 4 Lortel Awards (winning 2) and is now being made into a motion picture with Big Beach/American Work. He currently works as a staff writer for the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black. Adam Rapp is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play, Red Light Winter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006. Rapp is the resident playwright at the Edge Theatre Company in New York City. He teaches at the Yale School of Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks was named one of TIME magazine's "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave," and in 2002 became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog. In 2007 her 365 Plays/ 365 Days was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history. Her work is the subject of the PBS Film The Topdog Diaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849431531
• ISBN 13: 9781849431538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Mark Subias