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WOYZECK, PELLEAS AND MELISANDE, UBU ROI Three Translations From the Cutting Ball Theater By Rob Melrose
$18.00 at Small Press Distribution and Amazon.com (wholesale orders available at Small Press Distribution). New translations of three classic modernist plays: Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, Pelleas and Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck, and Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry; with a foreword by Oskar Eustis of the Public Theatre, an introduction by Paul Walsh of the Yale School of Drama, and an afterword by translator Rob Melrose.
From the forward by Oskar Eustis, The Public Theatre, New York City:
“Rob Melrose is a kind of magician, and his theater, Cutting Ball, is one of the most exciting and integrity-filled enterprises Continue reading
PRACTICAL TALES FOR CHILDREN and other stories by Mark Romyn $9.95 (paperback) at Small Press Distribution and Amazon.com (wholesale orders available at Small Press Distribution). Also available in a Kindle edition for $2.99.
There’s no one better at taking a reader to horror and no one better at making them giggle while there than Mark Romyn. He mischievously leaps into the arms of the living dead. He dares to tell any creepy truth, and even the faint of heart become liberated reading his chilling descriptions of our absurd world and then grateful for the way he has made us laugh. Continue reading
SNAKES OF KAMPUCHEA by Mark Knego a trilogy of symbolic dramas about Cambodia $14.00 (paperback), $2.99 Kindle e-book edition at Amazon.com and at Small Press Distribution (wholesale orders through Small Press Distribution)
SNAKES OF KAMPUCHEA Near a Cambodian farming village a forest teems with nature spirits, retaining a harmony. The vicious Khmer Rouge take over the village, and “the crocodile cannot control the waters of the lake”; as refugees Continue reading
TEN PLAYS by Mark Jackson $19.95 (paperback), individual plays $2.99 in Kindle e-book editions at Amazon.com (wholesale orders at CreateSpace.com)
TEN PLAYS by Mark Jackson is the first published collection of plays by award winning playwright, director and performer Mark Jackson. Jackson’s highly theatrical plays defy easy categorization, ranging in form and subject matter from grotesque comedies about contemporary pop culture to epic melodramas about ancient themes of love and war. Jackson’s work has been seen on both US coasts, in the UK and Germany. Continue reading