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An anthology of 10 plays by emerging playwrights, produced in NYC during the 2006 - 07 theatre season. The book contains a detailed introduction, permission information, production list, and the complete script for each play. Included, in addition, is an Appendix of new American Plays produced in NYC during the same season. Plays included: "The Telling Trilogy", a gripping and and often chilling full length play that explores the nature of loss; "What Happened When", two young men, brothers who have recently been separated, reunite of a night of reminiscence and truth telling; "Antarctica", in this sometimes surreal fantasia of growing up, Magda and Winnie set out to become the first American Girls to make an expedition to the South Pole; "Cleansed", an envelope-pushing drama about a biracial teenage girl who joins a white supremacist group; "Linnea", A young writer who is obsessed by Dostoyevsky lives out his own NYC dream version of "The Idiot" in this remarkable coming-of-age tale; "... and we all wore leather pants", in this wild and pyrotechnically poetic comedy, a Midwestern American family searches for redemption in the world of heavy metal & glam rock; "Marvelous Shrine", 17-year-old Marvelous isn t sure if he s gay, but he knows he wants to play music. His parents battle over his destiny; "In Our Name", a triptych of short, breathtaking one-acts about the ways that the War in Iraq has hit home; "Universal Robots", a riveting sci-fi cautionary tale inspired by the lives and works of Czech writer/activists Karel & Josef Capek, especially the play "R.U.R." which gave us the word robot.; "Fall Forward", a play about choices and figuring out what really matters, originally performed in a Methodist Church two blocks from the World Trade Center.