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
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.
