TCG Books

This volume includes: Failure to Thrive by Neena Beber; Terra Incognita by Maria Irene Fornes; Steak Knife Bacchae by Joe Goodrich; Heads by Murray Mednick; The Chemistry of Change by Marlane Meyer; The Tight Fit by Susan Mosakowski; Disgrace by John O ’Keefe; Understanding the Dead by John Steppling; and Demonology by Kelly Stuart.

The Padua Hills Playwrights Festival ran from 1978 through 1995 in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains and at venues across the Los Angeles area, attracting theatrical talents such as Sam Shepard, Jon Robin Baitz, Maria Irene Fornes, John Steppling, Kelly Stuart and David Henry Hwang. The Festival was resurrected in 2001 by artistic director Guy Zimmerman.

Joe & Betty brings us into the darkly comic world of an impoverished, disintegrating family in the Catskills of the 1950s. 16 Routines takes us on a surreal comic journey into a panicked mind of an actor who has forgotten his lines. Mrs. Feuerstein depicts a Holocaust survivor plotting revenge on a German couple by writing them into her play.

Brooklyn-born Murray Mednick founded the Padua Hills Playwrights workshop/Festival (now Padua Playwrights) in 1978. He was honored with the American Theater Critic’s Association Best New Play Citation for Joe & Betty in 2002, and has received two Rockefeller grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE and several Bay Area Critics Awards.