Author: Ramon Delgado
Publisher: Affiliated East-West
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 243
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818509571X
Description
This publication is the fifth edition of The Best Short plays edited by Ramon Delgado, who continues the series made famous by the late Stanley Richards.
Dr. Delgado, who started writing plays for marionette shows when he was eleven years old, has received honors in five regional and twelve national playwriting competitions. His plays have been produced in workshops, on television, and off-Off-Broadway. He has served as chairman for new plays at the Dallas Theater Center; literary advisor to The whole theatre Company in Montclair, New Jersey; and script judge for various play competitions. The New York Hispanic theatre INTAR selected Dr. Delgado as a Playwright-in-residence in 1980.
Cited twice by Outstanding Educators of America, Dr. Delgado has taught acting, directing, playwriting, and dramatic literature. He is currently Associate Professor of theatre at Montclair State College in New Jersey as well as theatre consultant to Scholastic Magazine's literary Cavalcade. Dr, Delgado’s textbook, Acting with Both Sides of Your brain, has recently been published.
Contents
Introduction
DAVID HHENRY HWANG
The Sound of a Voice
ELLEN BYRON
Graceland
JOEL ENSANA
The Sacred Dance of Yellow Thunder
MICHAEL DAVID QUINN
Businessman's Lunch
MURRAY SCHISGAL
Closet Madness
JULIA KEARSLEY
Baby
CAROL K. MACK
Half Time at Halcyon Days
JOSEPH HART
Hit and Run
JULIE BECKETT CRUTCHER
Approaching Lavendar
JAMES G RICHARDSON
Eulogy