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Celebrating indie theater artists by publishing collections of new plays and new translations of plays
Richard Livingston, Publisher
EXIT Press
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Woyzeck, Pelleas and Melisande, Ubu Roi Three Translations From the Cutting Ball Theater translated by Rob Melrose $18.00 (paperback) at Amazon.com CLICK TO PURCHASE
WOYZECK,
PELLEAS AND MELISANDE, UBU ROI
Three Translations From the Cutting Ball Theater
By Rob Melrose
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, an Introduction
by Paul Walsh, and an Afterword by Rob Melrose
- "Rob Melrose is a kind of magician, and his theater, Cutting Ball,
is one of the most exciting and integrity-filled enterprises going in the
sometimes-shabby field of the American theater. These translations, lucid
and sharp, are a beautiful testimony to the value of Rob's achievement."
-- from the forward by Oskar Eustis
artistic director of the Public Theatre
New York City- "To bring these three plays together into a single volume is to embrace a heritage of modernist experiment, left us by young men in their 20s living in the 19th century. It is a heritage that redefined risk as it redefined theater and the purposes it serves. And it is this that makes this volume so valuable. We are invited to see these plays that defined the theater of today afresh, in a language that is both immediate and theatrical, and embrace the risk they celebrate as our own. And isn't that what we should expect from a new translation? To experience again as new those very things that helped shape who we are?"
-- from the introduction by Paul Walsh
Associate Professor (adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
Yale School of Drama
Ten Plays by Mark Jackson
$19.95 at Amazon.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. This collection includes American $uicide, BANG!, Brave, The Death of Meyerhold, Faust Pt1, The Forest War, I Am Hamlet, little extremes, Messenger #1 and R&J, with notes by the author and a foreword by critic Rob Avila. $19.95 (paperback), individual plays $2.99 in Kindle e-book editions at Amazon.com.
"From reimagined Shakespearean classics (R&J, I Am Hamlet) to Jackson's breakout hit The Death of Meyerhold, the bleakly comedic American $uicide, and the stirring Kurosawa-esque epic The Forest War, what these plays have in common is an audacious commitment to the illimitable possibilities of live theater" -- Nicole Gluckstern, SF Bay Guardian
Snakes of Kampuchea
by Mark Knego
$14.00 at Amazon.com
SNAKES OF KAMPUCHEA by Mark Knego, a trilogy of symbolic dramas about Cambodia
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 of the
Khmer Rouge genocide flee to the West.
TUAL KAN’S JOURNEY
A single Cambodian mother in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district wrestles
with flashbacks, contends with her rebellious daughter, and relives the
magical nature of her pre-refugee village life in this symbolic piece of
grief, goddesses, birds and a magic fish.
RETURN TO ANGKOR
A young Cambodian American woman returns to her ancestral village to search
for her long separated sister; yet everything has changed. The vow she makes
in the finale, about the individual responsibility of shared history and
collective memory, caps the trilogy.
$14.00 (paperback), $2.99 Kindle e-book edition at Amazon.com.
Press Releases (click on date for full release):
July
6, 2011
Snakes of Kampuchea published by EXIT Press
August 11, 2010 TEN PLAYS by Mark Jackson
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PRACTICAL TALES FOR CHILDREN and other stories by Mark Romyn
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