Plays and Playwrights 2008

PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2008 is the newest addition to NYTE Small Press' annual anthology series of new works by emerging dramatists. It includes:
1. Crystal Skillman's THE TELLING TRILOGY: a quirky, challenging piece, full of riddles and enigmatic twists and turns and disparate supernatural phenomena
2. Daniel Talbott's WHAT HAPPENED WHEN: a taut, spare one-act about two brothers who reunite
3. Carolyn Raship's ANTARCTICA: a fantasia about two high school girls who set out on a journey to the South Pole
4. Thomas Bradshaw's CLEANSED: a teenage girl in Indiana, daughter of a black man and a white woman, becomes a skinhead
5. John Regis' LINNEA: the reflections of a settled mind looking back on an untethering (but necessary) coming-of-age
6. Robert Attenweiler's ....AND WE ALL WORE LEATHER PANTS: Williams and Inge, are equally antecedents to his singular style; and so are the South American magic realists and the mid-century European abusrdists.
7. Leslie Bramm's MARVELOUS SHRINE: the nature of heroism and family pride and, not at all incidentally, the tragic effects of war
8. Elena Hartwell's IN OUR NAME: a most direct and honest response to the war in a triptych of short one acts
9. Mac Rogers' UNIVERSAL ROBOTS: inspired by the play "R.U.R." it also owes much to the world of science fiction and alternative history
10. Daniel Reitz's FALL FORWARD: a remarkable exploration of many of the questions that the catastrophe that was 9/11 was supposed to have drawn into sharp focus.

Also included is a Foreword by Mark Blankenship, a detailed introduction by Martin Denton, and an APPENDIX of the new plays that opened in New York City the previous year.