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Brings together ten works that show the excitement and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleidoscopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from which the writers are teasing revelations.

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"These are made-up worlds, but made up out of the junk of the real. Many of these plays betray the American delight in the tinkerer's habit and the outsider's pleasure in the beauty of random arrangement, the accidental, and the discarded. What makes them so powerful is their obsession with truth of perception and precision of expression." - Mac Wellman, from the Preface"

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 26 May 2006
      ISBN-13 9780816647316
      978-0816647316
      ISBN-10 0816647313
      Also in:
      Creative writing Theatre studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Brings together ten works that show the excitement and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleidoscopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from which the writers are teasing revelations.

      Trade Review
      "These are made-up worlds, but made up out of the junk of the real. Many of these plays betray the American delight in the tinkerer's habit and the outsider's pleasure in the beauty of random arrangement, the accidental, and the discarded. What makes them so powerful is their obsession with truth of perception and precision of expression." - Mac Wellman, from the Preface"

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