Conjunctions: 25 / The New American Theater

Fall 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Plays as Literature
Joyce Carol Oates

It’s an Undoing World or Why Should It Be Easy When It Can Be Hard?
Tony Kushner

From Venus
Suzan-Lori Parks

Amphibians
Jon Robin Baitz

Mrs. Chang
Han Ong

The Sandalwood Box
Mac Wellman

The Mineola Twins, A Comedy in Six Scenes, Three Dreams and Five Wigs
Paula Vogel

The Dalai Lama Goes Three for Four
Eric Overmeyer

Antonia and Jane
Wendy Wasserstein

Nina in the Morning
Christopher Durang

Kibbutz
Donald Margulies

Two Iphigenia Plays
Ellen McLaughlin

Etiquette & Vitriol
Nicky Silver

Evolution
Jonathan Marc Sherman

From The Psychic Life of Savages
Amy Freed

Divine Comedy South
Romulus Linney

You Belong to Me
Keith Reddin

The Adoption
Joyce Carol Oates

Elegy for the House That Ruth Built
Arthur Kopit

From Quills, a grand guignol
Doug Wright

Insurrection: Holding History
Robert O&rsquo and Hara

Every Man Jack of You
Erik Ehn

Moon Under Miami, Scenes From a Play
John Guare

Wish Technology
Mark O’Donnell

Saved or Destroyed
Harry Kondoleon

Degas, C’est Moi
David Ives

Description

Conjunctions: 25, The New American Theater

Edited by Bradford Morrow & John Guare

Cover artwork © 1995 by Red Grooms: Scale model of set for John Guare’s Moon Under Miami, first performed at the Organic Theater, Chicago, 1995. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist and Marlborough Gallery.

Conjunctions’ revolutionary theater issue spotlights what guest editor John Guare has identified as “an entire breed of playwrights out there doing work which is not part of any literary scene and never gets exposure to a reading public.” This collection is intended both to remedy that situation and to serve as a call for new excitations from these provocative artists of the page and stage.