Plays and Playwrights 2007

by Denton, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780967023496
• ISBN10: 0967023491
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: New York Theatre Experience Inc

Summary

Plays included: LENZ by bluemouth inc. - A unique theatre happening in a mind-blowing interactive/experiential format. OFFICE SONATA by Andy Chmelko - A satirical comedy about corporate life in the high-powered, high-tech era. KISS AND CRY by Tom Rowan - America's sweethearts, a rising movie star and a figure skater on his way to the Olympics, turn out to be gay. THEY'RE JUST LIKE US by Boo Killebrew - This unconventional one-act comedy looks at the American Dream of celebrity with intelligence, wit, and tenderness. CONVERGENCE by Bryn Manion - A meditation on memory, perspective, and the shared collisions and coincidences that can alter lives forever. RED TIDE BLOOMING by Taylor Mac -- A musical celebration of freakhood gleefully subverting every rule of musical comedy. THE ADVENTURES OF NERVOUS-BOY by James Comtois - A contemporary play about the scary commonplaces of life in urban America in the new millennium.ANOTHER BRIEF ENCOUNTER by Stan Richardson - An homage to Noel Coward's stiff-upper-lip romance as well as a riff on gay relationships and social politics. CORPS VALUES by Brendon Bates - A father and son go head-to-head when the latter returns home from serving in Iraq and announces he is going AWOL. DIVING NORMAL by Ashlin Halfnight - An unlikely trio of urbanites balance love, friendship and sexual compulsion. 'NAMI by Chad Beckim - Two inner-city couples become enmeshed in the kidnapping of a little girl, a survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami.