The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013

The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013
(Applause Books). For over 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and more. In this volume, the plays capture the struggle between "hot tempers and cold decrees." Humans love to think of themselves as rational beings well in control of their lives and surroundings from sunup to sundown, sundown to sunrise. We learn to follow rules of proper behavior and more than happily issue out advice to our friends who just can't get a handle on themselves. Restraint and order, after all, are the cornerstones of human society and civilization. The problem is that human nature bucks and bridles at every attempt to socialize and civilize. Shakespeare got it right when he penned the observation, "The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree." In those few words he has managed to capture precisely why it is so difficult to be human; if it were okay simply to let our hot tempers prevail, life would be so much easier. But cold decrees are what prevent us from self-destruction, and so we endure the struggle.
Includes the following plays:
The True Death of SocratesÂ by Frank Higgins
ExistenceÂ by Murray Schisgal
The Origins of the Drink They Named After MeÂ by Steve Feffer
RiseÂ by Crystal Skillman
Spatial DisorientationÂ by Lisa Soland
Between the LinesÂ by Amber Leanne Marcoon
The RainbowÂ by James Armstrong
SubtractionÂ by Kevin McFillen
FlareÂ by Edith Freni
Blue, Blue MoonÂ by John Patrick Bray
Kid GlovesÂ by David Rusiecki
The Grim RaperÂ by Daniel Guyton
HurtÂ by Saviana Stanescu
CellÂ by Cassandra Medley
Abandoned in QueensÂ by Laura Maria Censabella
Free WillÂ by Billy Aronson
Dark King Kills UnicornÂ by Reina Hardy
Deer Haunting: A Far Side CartoonÂ by Andrea J Onstad
2nd Anniversary Near Taurus MajorÂ by Gene Kato
The New ModelsÂ by Rory Leahy
Country USA
Manufacturer Applause
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2000-01-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Applause
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2000-01-01
Format	Kindle eBook

The Best American Short Plays 2012-2013

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