num_pages: 304
description: Selected and introduced by Craig Lucas, the plays in this edition include Christopher Shinn's elegant The Sleepers, which details a young couple's sexual goings-on that are not at the heart of the David Schulner's Hope (and Charles), which gives us two completely different, but related, perspectives on a first date; Bathsheba Doran's funny and heartbreaking 2 Soldiers, in which a warrior from an ancient era encounters one from our own; anton dudley's Davy and Stu, which conveys the tenderness, cruelty, lust, and loneliness that can live inside a teenage love affair; Victor Lodato's Dear Sara Jane, in which a young woman waiting for her husband to return from battle contemplates love, war, and a human skull; and Dan LeFranc's Hippie Van Gumdrop, in which two sisters rummage through their dead mother's van-turned-hippie-hovel in search of anything that resembles the woman they never understood.
language: English
title: The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005
titlecomplete: The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Back Stage Books