The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008Barbara Parisi Features 14 one-act plays that include A Roz by Any Other Name, Weird, Bricklayers Poet, Laundry and Lies, Light, House of the Holy Moment, The Disruptive, Discursive Delusions of Donald, The Perfect Relationship, The Hysterical Misogynist, The Perfect Medium, Outsourced, Elvis of Nazareth, and Dead Trees. |
Contents
Introduction | xv |
The Hysterical Misogynist | 1 |
Elvis of Nazareth | 29 |
A Roz by Any Other Name and Weïrd | 55 |
Bricklayers Poet | 111 |
Laundry and Lies | 129 |
Light | 149 |
House of the Holy Moment | 163 |
The Disruptive Discursive Delusions of Donald | 193 |
The Perfect Relationship | 215 |
The Perfect Medium | 233 |
Outsourced | 281 |
Dead Trees | 293 |
GC | 311 |
Five Story Walkup | 329 |
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