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(More customer reviews)This is a fantastic collection of the best one-act plays from very talented and expressive American playwrights. Highlights include Joe Maruzzo's wonderfully poignant "Bricklayers Poet," the witty and vulnerable "The Perfect Relationship" by Jill Elaine Hughes, and Cary Pepper's challenging and confrontational "House of the Holy Moment." As good as all the plays are, the very best is Jay Huling's bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny "Elvis of Nazareth." Huling places his Elvis Presley in a biblical fantasy that manages to show both reverence and near-blasphamy in almost the same breath. Other impressive playwrights in this work include Murray Schisgal, who wrote the screenplay for the motion picture "Tootsie," Theodore Mann, who co-founded New York's famous Circle in the Square Theatre, and the often-produced and multi-award winning Laura Shaine. All of these plays -- from Jay Huling's "Elvis of Nazareth" to Jeni Mahoney's very witty "Light" would make an excellent evening of theatre that would entertain and inspire audiences. At the very least, it's an enjoyable and easy read.
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 14 plays: A Roz by Any Other Name and Weird, by B. T. Ryback; Bricklayers Poet, by Joe Maruzzo; Laundry and Lies, by Adam Kraar; Light, by Jeni Mahoney; House of the Holy Moment, by Cary Pepper; The Disruptive, Discursive Delusions of Donald, by Michael Roderick; The Perfect Relationship, by Jill Elaine Hughes; The Hysterical Misogynist, by Murray Schisgal; The Perfect Medium, by Eileen Fischer; Outsourced, by Laura Shaine Cunningham; Elvis of Nazareth, by Jay Huling; Dead Trees, by Rick Pulos; Five Story Walkup, by Daniel Gallant, including his own play and others by John Guare, Neil LaBute, Quincy Long, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Clay McLeod Chapman, and Daniel Frederick Levin; and G.C., by Theodore Mann.
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