DPS Now Published

Dramatists Play Service is pleased to announce the publication of:
FABULATION OR, THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE by Lynn NottageWinner of a 2005 Obie Award. “A self-made woman bumps roughly down the social ladder in this lively, loose-limbed satiric fable…clever and consistently entertaining, stocked with funny set pieces…” —Variety “…a sprawling, picaresque play…robustly entertaining…punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor.” —The New York Times
MURDER BY POE by Jeffrey Hatcher “Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher guides us into the House of Poe, a dark space with as many rooms as there are tales. Doors and cabinets open to reveal corpses, weapons and every detail of the crime scene…These murderers and victims take the stage like figures from our nightmares. They describe and reenact their stories as if the theater were a laboratory and we were students watching humans turn themselves into experiments.” —The New York Times
THE MYSTERY PLAYS by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa“…stylish, spine-tingling…Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa uses standard tricks of horror stories, borrowing liberally from masters like Kafka, Lovecraft, Hitchock…But his mastery of the genre is his own…irresistible.” —The New York Times “Undaunted by the special-effects limitations of theatre, playwright and Marvel comic-book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa maps out some creepy twilight zones in THE MYSTERY PLAYS, an engaging, related pair of one acts…The theatre may rarely deliver shocks equivalent to, say, Dawn of the Dead, but Aguirre-Sacasa’s work is fine compensation.” —Time Out
THE SLEEPER by Catherine ButterfieldWinner of the 2004 Kaufman and Hart Award. “[Butterfield] does in ninety minutes what it would take many writers a lifetime to do—peel back the layers of unique individuals to show you how they feel and make you understand why they feel that way, even if their views conflict stridently with your own…You may very well find yourself sitting in your car afterward, wondering if you would have seen the ending coming if you had just concentrated a little more. Kind of like when you saw M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense for the first time.” —The North Arkansas Times
THINGS BETWEEN US One-Act Plays by Jacquelyn Reingold“…a wild reaching fantasy about what women have to put up with…gives the evening a needed jolt of adrenaline.” —The New York Times “…sweet and winsome…” —The New York Post “…vaudevillian panache, this riotous cli’toon is fueled…wacky.” —The Village Voice “…offbeat, subtle and unexpectedly powerful…” —LA Weekly “…theatrically ambitious and distinctive…a compelling, moving comedy of sexual manners.” —BackStage West
TRIPTYCH by Edna O'Brien“…passionate depth of writing…complex emotional intensity…O’Brien’s skill at creating finely detailed, multi-dimensional characters is thrilling.” —The Oakland Tribune “…[an] intriguing and beguiling disquisition on the unanswerable question…‘What is love?’” —The San Francisco Chronicle “O’Brien surprises with her poetic sense of longing, the way she paints each woman in all her mysteries.” —The San Jose Mercury News
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