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Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Vintage Originals)by Eric Lane
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter. From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully loopy "Wanda's Visit" to Shel Silverstein's supremely twisted "The Best Daddy," there's something in here to make everyone laugh. There are plays for casts of all sizes, from monologues to large ensembles, with diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. Even the titles are funny: Mark O'Donnell's "There Shall Be No Bottom (a bad play for worse actors)," Elaine May's "The Way of All Fish," and Alan Ball's "Your Mother's Butt." A bonanza for theatergoers, performers, and comedy fans, Laugh Lines will bring down the house. About the AuthorEric Lane and Nina Shengold are editors of twelve contemporary play collections. Their other titles for Vintage Books include Plays for Actresses, Leading Women: Plays for Actresses II, Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, Take Ten II: More Ten-Minute Plays, Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation, and Talk to Me: Monologue Plays. For Viking Penguin, they edited The Actors Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues, The Actors Book of Scenes from New Plays, Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays, The Actors Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays (Lambda Literary Award nominee), and Telling Tales: New One-Act Plays. Nina Shengold received the ABC Playwright Award and the L.A. Weekly Award for Homesteaders, published by Samuel French. Her Romeo/Juliet, a five-actor adaptation of Shakespeares play, is published by Broadway Play Publishing. Her ten-minute plays have been performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and dozens of other theaters. Ms. Shengold won the Writers Guild Award and a GLAAD Award nomination for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden; other screenplays include Blind Spot, with Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, Unwed Father, Double Platinum, and a flm adaptation of Jane Smileys Good Will. She is artistic director of the upstate New York theater company Actors & Writers. Her first novel, Clearcut, was published by Anchor Books. Eric Lane is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. Plays include Heart of the City, Times of War, Shellac, Cater-Waiter, and Dancing on Checkers Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. Mr. Lane has written and produced two short filims: First Breath and Cater-Waiter. For his work on TVs Ryans Hope, he received a Writers Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwrighting Award, La Mama Playwright Development Award, numerous Yaddo fellowships, and a St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity fellowship in Malta. Mr. Lane is an honors graduate of Brown University, and is artistic director of Orange Thoughts Productions, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City. Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments David Auburn: MISS YOU Alan Ball: YOUR MOTHER'S BUTT Gina Barnett: ALONE AT LAST! Glen Berger: THE GALLOWS MONOLOGUE FROM SIDNEY RYAN'S GUNPOWDER AND BLOOD David Cale: POODLES Eric Coble: TIES THAT BIND Sharon E. Cooper: MISTAKEN IDENTITY Laura Shaine Cunningham: OUTSOURCED Adrienne Dawes: HERITAGE, HER-I-TAGE, & HAIR-I-TAGE Steven Dietz: THE SPOT Paul Dooley & Winne Holzman: POST-ITS (Notes on a Marriage) Christopher Durang: WANDA'S VISIT Peter Hedges: THE VALERIE OF NOW Mikhail Horowitz: WE CANNOT KNOW THE MIND OF GOD Seth Kramer: THE TARANTINO VARIATION Eric Lane: THE STATUE OF BOLÍVAR Warrent Light: MARS HAS NEVER BEEN THIS CLOSE Mark Harvey Levine: SURPRISE David Lindsay-Abaire: HOW WE TALK IN SOUTH BOSTON Steve Martin: THE ZIG-ZAG WOMAN Elaine May: THE WAY OF ALL FISH Mark O'Donnell: THERE SHALL BE NO BOTTOM (a bad play for worse actors) Jonathan Rand: CHECK, PLEASE Wayne Rawley: CONTROLLING INTEREST Jacquelyn Reingold: 2B (OR NOT 2B) Edwin Sánchez: POPS Nina Shengold: FORTY TO LIFE Shel Silverstein: THE BEST DADDY David Smilow: THE FLYING WOLIMSKIES RETURN Tommy Smith: STREAK Richard Strand: ROSA'S EULOGY Frederick Stroppel: CHOCOLATE Joyce Van Dyke: THE EARRING Daryl Watson: THE BLUEBERRY HILL ACCORD Lauren Wilson: WEDDING DUET Garth Wingfield: PLEASE HAVE A SEAT AND SOMEONE WILL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY Contributors About the Editors Index Permissions and Acknowledgments What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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