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The Kennedy Center
American College Theater Festival Presents
Edited by Gary Garrison
Forward by Neil LaBute |
Published 2006
319 Pages
Back Stage Books, New York
List price $16.95 |
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Each year the Kennedy Center sponsors an American
College Theater Festival. Theater programs at colleges and universities in
eight geographic regions compete for the opportunity to send their finest
work to the nation's capitol. As part of the process, new works are written
by student authors competing for either the Michael Kanin prize for full
length works or the
John Cauble Award for shorter works. All too often these really promising
plays come to the Kennedy Center and then disappear.
Quiara Alegria Hudes' Yemaya's Belly
is the only one of the eight works printed here that has been staged in the
Potomac Region outside of the Kennedy Center. Still, this volume presents a
sampling of the best of the submissions from around the nation. |
Contents: Four full-length plays from the
Kennedy Center's student playwriting program, two one-act plays and two
ten-minute plays are reprinted in full.
The four full-length plays are:
- Training Wisteria, a comic-drama by Molly
Smith Metzler of Boston University.
- Lot's Daughters, a love story of two
Appalachian Women by Rebecca Basham of the University of New Orleans.
- it is no desert, a solo-show with twenty
characters dealing with neurofibromatosis by Dan Stroeh of Wittenberg
University.
- Yemaya's Belly, the Caribbean coming-of-age
story that received a recent professional production at Signature Theatre,
by Quiara Alegria Hudes of Brown University.
The one-act plays are:
- Supernova in Hamlet, by Kristina Leach of
California State University at Fullerton.
- The Man of Infinite Sadness by Brian Tanen
of New York University.
The ten-minute plays are:
- The Story of Izanagi and Izanami by Kristen
Wirsig of the University of Kansas.
- Stairway to Heaven by Gregory Fletcher of
California State University at Northridge and Boston University.
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