Plays and Playwrights 2009 »

Plays and Playwrights 2009 is the tenth volume in our yearly series of anthologies of new plays by emerging playwrights. This volume contains the complete script of 11 plays, author bios, permission information, author notes, and a detailed Introduction by the editor, Martin Denton. Included are:

HOSPITAL 2008 by Randy Sharp and Axis Company
A four-part serial play that explores the unconscious memories of a man in a coma.

LINUS & ALORA by Andrew Irons
A whimsical and poetical exploration of the powers of imagination: a lot can happen in nine months.

SISTER CITIES by Colette Freedman
Four sisters reunite following their mother's alleged suicide in this surprising and incisive comedy.

S/HE by Nanna Nick Mwaluko
The journey from Samantha to Sam: a young African American biological female struggles with gender and becomes a man.

DEATH AT FILM FORUM by Eric Bland
Aspiring filmmaker/auteurs compete a la Project Runway in this very funny mixed media satirical drama.

TRACES/fades by Lenora Champagne
A meditation on Alzheimer's and our national inability to remember history.

NOWHERE ON THE BORDER by Carlos Lacamara
A timely drama about a Mexican father searching the Arizona desert for his missing daughter, and the American Minuteman who detains him.

AMERICAN BADASS, OR 12 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A NATIONAL IDENTITY by Chris Harcum
In a dozen monologues, a look at who we are in 2008 and how we may have gotten that way.

A FIRE AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN by Tim Collins
An epic solo tour de force chronicling the past seven years of American upheaval.

CONVERSATION STORM by Rick Burkhardt
A mind-blowing exercise in thejustification of torture, in a taut, concise, single act.

KRAPP, 39 by Michael Laurence
Haunted by Beckett's Krapp, a 39-year-old actor throws himself a birthday party in this deeply personal solo play about the last moments of youth.