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Includes seven plays that explore themes of memory and identity.

Provides a window into the last thirty years of Japan's dynamic theater scene. This title provides an essential look into Japan's contemporary theater scene.

Follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabul. This title presents the topical and intense plays of one of the most interesting new voices in American theater.

A meditation on responsibility and parenthood that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a child as the author's characters do, but also to laugh at the couple's flaws and at the hilarity of the suburban life they lead.

Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theater collectives working today: andcompany&Co., Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop, and Showcase Beat Le Mot.

In Rechnitz, a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border town of Rechnitz. The author brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated.

An anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey that captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups.

Citizens of Tokyo is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," presents two plays--Toyko Notes and Kings of the Road--that are exemplary of Hirata's unique neorealist dramaturgy, which created one of the most important trends in Japanese theater since the 1990s: Quiet Theatre. The second part of the book presents two short comedies that satirize the politics of decision-making in Japan and abroad: "Loyal Rōnin: The Working Girls' Version" and "The Yalta Conference." The final part, "Robots and Androids are People Too," presents two short plays created in collaboration with Ishiguro Hiroshi and the Osaka University Robot Theatre Project. The plays are accompanied by a context-setting introduction from editor and cotranslator M. Cody Poulton.

The first anthology of Latin American drama to uniquely focus on the important Argentine dramatist, Santiago Loza. “Nothing to Do with Love:â€? And Other Plays brings together, for the first time in English, several of Argentine playwright Santiago Loza‿s major works, along with visual documentation of the playwright‿s productions and their historical and thematic contexts. For nearly twenty years, Loza has written scripts that document the experiences of marginalized individuals who live outside Buenos Aires or in its overlooked barrios, exploring how rural, working-class, and otherwise marginal individuals inhabit a reality different from many of the urban audiences who flock to the nation‿s theater. Loza focuses his dramaturgy on individuals who lead lives as seamstresses, orphans, ranch hands, or disaffected adults talking about their problems without any expectation of resolution. His plays provide a sense of the richness of Argentina‿s contemporary theater by giving voice to individuals whose lives are complicated by the economic fallout caused by Argentina‿s adoption of neoliberal policies and the economic crash of 2001, as well as by the nation‿s rapidly changing viewpoints on race, gender identity, and sexuality.   The first anthology of Latin American drama to uniquely focus on the important Argentine dramatist, Santiago Loza, this book will draw attention anew to the contemporary theaters of Argentina, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

An anthology of contemporary Polish drama that exposes ways in which individual and social violence impinge upon each other, disrupt notions of a monolithic Polish identity, and try to find meaning within the post-9/11 global context. It also includes an introduction that situates each play within its historical, political, and theatrical context.