Downloads
I am now making my plays available in collections for anyone who wishes to use them, offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. I'll be adding the collections as I create them. You can also still download individual plays from the Synopses page.
To see how the license works, see this article on Nina Paley's Sita Sings The Blues, which is offered under same license, or go directly to her website.
Full Length Plays
Volume 1 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- A Question of Color, Esquina, Ain't Ethiopia (both stage and reading versions), On The Nature of the Dark Matter..., Bright Gold Promise
Volume 2 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- The Happy City, Hardball, In The Name Of, When The Phones Came to Liberty Creek, The Measure of All Things
Volume 3 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- NEA High, Pictures at an Exhibition, Dancing at the Revolution, Seven Ladies Macbeth, Shea Man
One Act Plays
Volume 1 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- The Most Dangerous Woman in America, Homeward Bound, Let Down The Rains, When The Phones Came To Liberty Creek, Mine Eyes, and Poly X.
Volume 2 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- Samaritan, Another Seascape, A Senior Moment, The First Day of the Seventh Month, The Sin Eater
Volume 3 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- A Round of Slaughter, Still Small Voice, The Business, To...Or Not..., Translation
Short Plays
Volume 1 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- The Adulterous Woman, Affair of State, The Alamo, The Bête Goes Noire, Bintl Briv, Biog, The Body Electric, Booger, Only The Dead Know Brooklyn, Burning Issues, Catalog, The City of Mosques, Click, Combover, Courier Mercury, Location: Highway, Dot Org, Downsize, Ear Buds, Isn't A Date In Eight Great?
Volume 2 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- Equal. Separate, Everything's Jake, The Famine Church, Fare The Well, Frankie Is Dead, George Bailey Redivivus, Glory Train, Good Tidings, The Greed Gene, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Hammer, "Making Light": The Lost Letters of Hestery Prynne, Hold On, How Do You Like..., If Cleanliness, In The Fort, Ishmael and Ahab Mon Amour, J. De La Vega, Leaf Meal
Volume 3 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- Llorona, Love Letters, Moment, Mucho Macho, Newyorkistan, No Great Loss, Pamplona, Ripped From The Headlines, Road Rage, Rooted, Seconds, A Senior Moment, Slam Quartet, The Socialist Book of Love, Sporting Goods, To..Or Not..., Touching Down, Treetop, Undress Me, Undress Me: Woman to Woman, The Window
Theatre Essays
Volume 1 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- Antoine's Beef/Luther's Hammer, Imagination and Identity, Black Fest, Part II, The Magic of the Magic of Theatre, Untouched, The Nature of Human Nature, By Design, Exposing Exposition, Slings and Arrows, Outrageous Fortune, Sita Sings The Copyright, The Color-Line, Digitizing Theatre, Digitizing Theatre, Part 2, Life of the Daily Adequate, Rage as Healing: Two Versions, Doing The Dramaturg, The Curse of the Stage Manager, The Theatre of Edward L. Bernays, The Macho Zone, Dogme(fill in the year), Jigging and Reeling, Eros on the Escalator, On Acting, Raising Consciousness, Dance, What is Art in 2008?, What Is/What If, Necro-Political Theatre, Three Definitions of Real Theatre
Volume 2 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- The Gut In The Head, On Directing William Dunlap's André, Face, Script Tease, The Fallen Ice Cream, The Aesthetic Response, Macbeth's Children, Not Doing the Homework, The Song of the Wanderers: Can We Have a Benedictine Theatre?, Politics Is An Egg The Theatre Cannot Hatch, Art v. Commerce, Gallery Going, Original Sin, Dead Mr. Beckett, The Thrall of the Authentic, ThomPain, Theater That Does Us No Good, The Rights of the Playwright, Thoughts on Stage Sex, Screen Play, An Interview with Elfin Vogel, The Fount of Melancholy, Response to a Letter from the Editor, Fee'd To Death, Good Art Slaps Us in the Face, Howard Barker Strikes Again, The Weight of Theatre, Script (D)reading, Dogville
Volume 3 in epub, mobi, and PDF (one zip file)
- The Sweats, The Mysteries, Ear Theatre/Eye Theatre, Black and White, Follow-Up on "Black and White", Political Theatre, Playing on the Screen, The Theater of Power, Catastrophe, How Relevant Is Relevance?, Death, Death, Death to the 10-Minute Play!, Adapting a Novel into A Play, Some Thoughts on Spanish and Theatre, Ajax in Iraq, The Lady's Not For Burning, The Family Shakespeare, Waiting For Lefty, The Fire This Time Festival, Freedom Club, The Land Whale Murders, Reservoir, The Contract, A Home Across The Ocean, Roadkill Confidential, The Dybbuk, Lovesong of the Electric Bear, The Barker Poems: Gary The Thief, Plevna: Meditations on Hatred, A Question of Mercy, Fuente Ovejuna, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Essays 1983
A series of occasional essays written throughout the year 1983, as a kind of pre-blog blogging; in epub, mobi, and PDF format in one zip file.
