Name: Outlaw Theatre
Brand: Guy Zimmerman
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Mangus the Motherf*cker and Other Plays

$25.00

This volume brings together recent work by the West Coast master playwright writing in his signature combination of Beckett and the Beats. Poetic and inspiring, fine enough to be read as literature, these plays provide everything adventurous theater-makers need to bedazzle audiences anew. Featuring gems such as Three Tables, Whatever Happened to Julie Christie, and Mangus the Motherf*cker, this volume completes the full arc of this important playwright's career.

Plays include:

Three Tables
Two Violins
Whatever Happened to Julie Christie?
Death Sky Above a Play
Hanging Man

Cover image for Mangus the Motherf*cker and Other Plays, isbn: 9780990725657

Outlaw Theatre

$18.95

In 1978 Obie-award winning New York playwright Murray Mednick brought his friends Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes together with a group of actors and younger playwrights to Claremont outside Los Angeles to stage the first Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival. On an annual basis the Festival continued for the next eighteen years, extending the experimental ferment of the Off-Off Broadway movement into new and unique forms of theatrical expression. Featuring formal essays and reminiscences by a collection of participants—including David Henry Hwang and Migdalia Cruz, as well as Festival luminaries John O’Keefe, John Steppling, and Mednick himself—Outlaw Theatre is the first authoritative look back at this exciting legacy. The book will be a valued source of inspiration and craft notes for a new generation of young playwrights and theatre artists looking to shake things up as they craft the new.

Mayakovsky and Stalin

$14.95

Mayakovsky and Stalin is a dramatic character study exploring two distantly connected relationships: that of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and his wife Nadya, and of Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and his married lover and “muse,” Lilya Brik.

I Might Be the Person You Are Talking To

$18.95

Short plays from twenty cutting-edge Los Angeles playwrights make up this powerful and entertaining anthology. Includes works produced by Padua Playwrights and Sharon's Farm. Contributing playwrights include: Sissy Boyd, Hank Bunker, Heidi Darchuk, Juli Crockett Feldman, Susan Hayden, Coleman Hough, Bernard Goldberg, Michael Hacker, Rachel Jendrzejewski, Marc Jensen, Christopher Kelley, Murray Mednick, Kevin O'Sullivan, Gray Palmer, Chris Rossi, April Rouveyrol, Cheryl Slean, Wesley Walker, Sharon Yablon and Guy Zimmerman.

I Might Be the Person You Are Talking To

Beneath the Dusty Trees

$16.95

Celebrated playwright Mednick explores universal questions through Gary, a Joycean protagonist who navigates contemporary Los Angeles in eight new plays. The Los Angeles River may be a mere trickle compared to the River Liffey, but The Gary Plays” surge with a desire to find the very soul of a city.”James C. Taylor, KCRW "Theatre Talk"

Fever Dreams

$18.95

The seminal LA-based group brings the Off-Off Broadway tradition to the twenty-first century in ten new plays.

Hipsters in Distress

$14.95

Six plays about life on the edge by one of America’s leading avant-garde playwrights and a defining voice of his generation. Mednick is writing at the top of his form. Includes: Are You Lookin’?, Scar, Heads, Skinwalkers, Dictator, Switchback and Shatter ‘n’ Wade.

Plays for a New Millennium

$18.95

Includes: Dog Mouth by John Steppling, Wilfredo by Wesley Walker, Times Like These by John O’Keefe, G-Nome by Murray Mednick, Vagrant by Guy Zimmerman, and The Apple Juice Man by Sarah Koskoff

Villon and Other Plays

$17.95

"It's easy to see what brings actors back [to Mednick's work]. It's the rhythms, the wonderfully tortured characters, the dialogue that begs an actor to tease out the nuance in the lyrical poetry."Anthony Byrnes, KCRW "Behind the Curtain," from the introduction

Four new plays from the Off-Off Broadway pioneer and Obie-award winner Murray Mednick, including the fifteenth-century historical tragicomedy Villon, reveal a master at the top of his game.