Best American Short Plays 2000-2001

For over 60 years, The Best American Short Plays series has set the standard for excellence in one-act plays. In this latest edition, we are pleased to present a group of fresh-voiced, cutting-edge plays for the new millenium

Among the twelve plays included are Sheri Wilner's poignant Relative Strangers, which chronicles a young woman's yearning for the mother she never knew

Gary Sunshine's lyrical Al Takes a Bride, in which two young southern women fantasize about marrying each other

Rosemary Moore's The Pain of Pink Evenings, which charts the emotional terrain of a grieving young widow

Brian Silberman's Walkin' Backwards, in which an outcast teenage boy runs away from home on the day of his mother's funeral

And Laurence Klavan's darkly humorous The Summer Sublet, which probes an unexpected affair between a young man and his landlord

From 19th century Memphis to present-day Washington DC, from sexual politics to coming of age, the plays in this volume are sure to inspire, challenge and entertain