The Best Short Plays - 1987

(Applause Books). A collection of 10 short plays from 1987. Edited and introduced by Ramon Delgado. Includes: "Life Under Water" Richard Greenberg; "A Betrothal" Lanford Wilson; "Wormwood" Amlin Gray; "How It Hangs" Grace McKeaney; "Goin' West" Louis Phillips; "Practical Magic" Shannon Keith Kelley; "How Gertrude Stormed the Philosophers' Club" Martin Epstein; "Why the Lord Come to Sand Mountain" Romulus Linney; "Spittin' Image" Stephen Metcalfe; "The Stonewater Rapture" Doug Wright.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936839945
• ISBN13: 9780936839943
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Banner Year for Short Plays

No collection of short plays I've read before or since (even within the same series) has matched this one's élan. Kudos to editor Del Gado and each of the playwrights invited by him to contribute to this stellar compilation. -- Kevin DiNovis