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He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "What Wellman does best [is] approach the mystery of things without succumbing to mute darkness." Charles McNulty, Village Voice "Wellman is our latter-day Brecht, providing the Verfremdung, the `making strange' that makes us see what has been before us all along." Marjorie Perloff

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The Bad Infinity is invaluable for tracing Wellman's evolution, from the Godotesque landscape in Harm's way (1978) to the parody of Jesse Helm's NEA 4 furor in 7 Blowjobs (1991)." -- Theater

Two profane aliens have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award-winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance. In 2003, The Village Voice gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mac Wellman: "... [he] has long situated himself on the frontier of new forms. He's not only an experimental dramatist of the first rank, but ...

TWO SEPTEMBER is set in post-WWII Vietnam, when Ho Chi Minh had visions of a free country and a newly formed House UnAmerican Affairs Committee blacklisted a young, female American writer who believed in truth, justice, and a humane social order. In 2003, The Village Voice gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mac Wellman: "... [he] has long situated himself on the frontier of new forms. He's not only an experimental dramatist of the first rank...

In Mac Wellman's black comedy, a very angry person attempts to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a world of other angry persons. "... this comic/horror story examines the legacy that the cowboy has wrought on American society - where exactly the shoot-first-ask-questions-later attitude has left us ... a brilliantly funny opening scene ..." -Scott Proudfit, Backstage West

Linda Perdido, "the story of the antisocial Linda Perdido told by her well-behaved sister Qua, is a memoir like no other.

A novel by the author of Crowtet (plays) and Annie Salem (novel)

He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist."--Mew Gussow, New York Times

Brings together ten works that show the excitement and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleidoscopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from which the writers are teasing revelations.

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Known for his verbal invention and radical experimentation, Mac Wellman is one of America’s most original and essential dramatists. Since seizing the spotlight with 7 Blowjobs in the early nineties, Wellman has charted an ambitious artistic course. As a fixture on the downtown New York theater scene, and now with his work being staged around the world, he has challenged directors, designers, producers, actors, audiences, and readers for nearly...

At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights based in New York City has emerged, crafting works that challenge and undermine the conventional structure, language, and characterization of commercial theater while rejecting outdated notions of the avant-garde. New Downtown Now brings together ten new...

The last two plays in Mac Wellman's quartet of plays--"Crowtet.

An edition of the first two plays in Mac Wellman's highly successful quartet of plays.