Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays, Volume 3 : Short Plays, 1989-2005

by Rebeck, Theresa

• ISBN13: 9781575254470
• ISBN10: 1575254476
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-10
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

Summary

?It is refreshing to read the work of a feisty writer like Rebeck . . . a ferocious wit and sense of rhythm . . . [she] writes with style, purpose and more than a little humor about contemporary American women.? ?NEW ENGLAND THEATRE JOURNALWhat We're Up AgainstKatie and FrankThe ContractSex with the CensorGreat to See YouThe ActressFuneral PlayTrain to BrooklynHow We Get to Where We're GoingDoes This Woman Have a Name?WalkBig MistakeDrinking ProblemCandy HeartAftermathArt AppreciationJosephinaThe First DayOff BaseMary, Mother of God, Intercede for UsDeliver MeTHERESA REBECK?s most recent work includes her play MAURITIUS, opens October 4th at the Biltmore Theater on Broadway. The play is a darkly funny story about two half-sisters who come in conflict over a book of rare, potentially priceless postage stamps. Theresa?s new novel, Three Girls and Her Brother, is being brought out by Random house in the United States and HarperCollins in England, in March of 2008. The world premiere of her play, OUR HOUSE, is opening the Denver Center Theatre's New Play Summit in January of 2008. Rebeck's many other plays include Bad Dates, Spike Heels, The Water's Edge, and The Scene, which will be presented this season in New York at Second Stage, also directed by Taichman. Her work has been widely produced both regionally and internationally.

Table of Contents

What we're up against	p. 1
Katie and Frank	p. 9
The contract	p. 15
Sex with the censor	p. 23
Great to see you	p. 29
The actress	p. 41
Funeral play	p. 49
Train to Brooklyn	p. 57
How we get to where we're going	p. 65
Does this woman have a name?	p. 73
Walk	p. 95
Big mistake	p. 103
Drinking problem	p. 115
Candy heart	p. 121
Aftermath	p. 127
Art appreciation	p. 135
Josephina	p. 141
The first day	p. 147
Off base	p. 157
Mary, Mother of God, intercede for us	p. 163
Deliver me	p. 169
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