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The Downtown Anthology: 6 Hit Plays from New York's Downtown Theaters

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By Morgan Gould (editor), Erin Salvi (editor) and Mac Wellman (foreword by)

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9781623840037 | Playscripts Inc, July 7, 2015, cover price $19.99

The Banquet: The Complete Plays, Films, and Librettos

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Product Description: "Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think."âMac WellmanThe Banquet brings together 144 plays, ten screenplays, and five operas spanning more than five decades of experimental work from a writer John Ashbery has called "simply the best we have...read more

By Mac Wellman (foreword by)

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9781566893299 | Coffee House Pr, July 16, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think.

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9781566893282 | Coffee House Pr, July 16, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think.

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9781573661737 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, June 15, 2013, cover price $16.95

Split the Stick: A Miniaturist-divan

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Product Description: Poetry. "Mac Wellman's new collection of poetry is so singular, so original that there is no one writing poetry today quite like him. His fanciful, satirical world is filled with addresses to magical figures such as the silent Mahoon...read more

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9781931824460 | Roof Books, April 3, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Drama. Poetry. From three-time Obie Award-winner Mac Wellman comes this complex and provocative play about two simple events. Yamaha Nazimova drops a glove. Jewel Beckett picks it up. Between these two occurrences, a band of moths, fingers, demons, and all-too-human pronouns sing 27 choruses rich with puns, reversals, exclamations, whisperings, cries of loss, cries of victory, arguments, and resolutions...read more

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9780984414208 | Small Pr Distribution, June 9, 2011, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Drama.

The Playwright's Workout: Exercises for the Dramatic Imagination From Professional Playwrights

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Product Description: This collection of exercises is designed to build creative muscle in students of playwriting and will prove useful as well to working dramatists who want to build their skills while stretching their imaginative powers. Contributed by some of America's foremost playwrights and playwriting teachers, these varied and inventive exercises offer new sources for dramatic inspiration, provide ways to embolden dramatic action, and encourage experimentation with the basic elements of playwriting...read more

By Michael Bigelow Dixon (editor), Liz Engelman (editor), Marsha Norman (foreword by) and Mac Wellman (other contributor)

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9781575256177 | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, April 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of exercises is designed to build creative muscle in students of playwriting and will prove useful as well to working dramatists who want to build their skills while stretching their imaginative powers.

The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Nine New Plays

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Book Description: Known for his verbal invention and radical experimentation, Mac Wellman is one of Americaâs most original and essential dramatists. Since seizing the spotlight with 7 Blowjobs in the early nineties, Wellman has charted an ambitious artistic course...read more

By Helen Shaw (foreword by) and Mac Wellman

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9780816655045 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 3, 2008, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Known for his verbal invention and radical experimentation, Mac Wellman is one of Americaâs most original and essential dramatists.

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9780816655052 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 3, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Known for his verbal invention and radical experimentation, Mac Wellman is one of Americaâs most original and essential dramatists.

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Product Description: HARM'S WAY takes place in a mythical American West where every action is more than it seems. These are the fantastical adventures of Santouche, a very angry person, as he attempts to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a world of other angry persons...read more

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9780881453799 | Broadway Play Pub, March 1, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: HARM'S WAY takes place in a mythical American West where every action is more than it seems.

9780881450200 | Broadway Play Pub, June 1, 1984, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: HARM'S WAY takes place in a mythical American West where every action is more than it seems.

A Chronicle Of The Madness Of Small Worlds

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Product Description: Fiction. A CHRONICLE OF THE MADNESS OF SMALL WORLDS is Mac Wellman's first collection of short stories. Each story in A CHRONICLE OF THE MADNESS OF SMALL WORLDS is set on a different asteroid. But this is not standard science fiction fare...read more

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9780963919267 | Trip Street Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

The Bad Infinity: Eight Plays by Mac Wellman

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9781555540593, titled "Bad Infinity: Eight Plays By Mac Wellman" | Paj Pubn, August 30, 2008, cover price $15.95

9780801846885 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $19.95

Q's Q: An Arboreal Narrative

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Product Description: Playwright, poet and novelist Mac Wellman has created, in his newest fiction, a hilarious satire of American theater the climaxes in a performance resulting in the death of the Theater companyâs chief and in the end of more than one theater career.

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9781933382517 | Green Integer Books, August 15, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Playwright, poet and novelist Mac Wellman has created, in his newest fiction, a hilarious satire of American theater the climaxes in a performance resulting in the death of the Theater companyâs chief and in the end of more than one theater career.

9781931243643 | Green Integer Books, December 15, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Playwright, poet and novelist Mac Wellman has created, in his newest fiction, a hilarious satire of American Theater.

New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York

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Product Description: 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...read more

By Jeffrey M. Jones (introduced by), Young Jean Lee (editor) and Mac Wellman (editor)

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9780816647309 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 26, 2006, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780816647316 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 26, 2006, cover price $24.95

Cellophane: Plays By Mac Wellman

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By Marjorie Perloff (foreword by) and Mac Wellman

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9781555540616 | Paj Pubn, February 1, 2005, cover price $19.95

Strange Elegies

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Product Description: Poetry. "I know of no one who knows more than Mac Wellman about the interstices between desire and nonsense, as well as those between the po-mo psyche's inevitable nihilistic impulses, and whatever the legacy left by our prehensile ancestors, those comic apes staring out of the frame with their classic bananas...read more

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9781931824163 | Roof Books, January 1, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

Crowtet 2: Second-Hand Smoke & the Lesser Magoo

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Product Description: These two plays are the second of Wellmanâs award-winning quartet of plays involving, in one way or another, characters who have taken up with or have been highly influenced by birdsâparticularly crows of the nation of Rational Biped...read more

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9781931243711 | Green Integer Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: These two plays are the second of Wellmanâs award-winning quartet of plays involving, in one way or another, characters who have taken up with or have been highly influenced by birdsâparticularly crows of the nation of Rational Biped.

Second Hand Smoke and the Lesser Magoo

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9781557133182 | Sun & Moon Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95

Miniature: Poems

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Product Description: Poetry. "Almost 20 years ago, when I was a critic by profession, a wise theater friend took me to my first Mac Wellman playâshe'd grown tired of hearing me rant against a dumb, conventional 'avant-garde' of images. I wanted language, ideas, great but non-narrative passions...read more

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9781931824033 | Roof Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

Cellophane: Plays

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Product Description: Celebrated for his dizzying linguistic inventions, his experimental narratives, his biting social and political critiques, and his absurdist sense of humor, Mac Wellman has become one of America's leading avant-garde playwrights. In Cellophane, Wellman offers the eleven plays that he considers his most important: Albanian Softshoe, Mister Original Bugg, Cleveland, Bad Penny, Cellophane, Three Americanisms, Fnu Lnu, Girl Gone, Hypatia, The Sandalwood Box, and Cat's-Paw...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801867194 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Celebrated for his dizzying linguistic inventions, his experimental narratives, his biting social and political critiques, and his absurdist sense of humor, Mac Wellman has become one of America's leading avant-garde playwrights.

Crowtet 1: A Murder of Crows & the Hyacinth Macaw

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

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9781892295521 | Green Integer Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: An edition of the first two plays in Mac Wellman's highly successful quartet of plays.

A Murder of Crows and the Hyacinth Macaw

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

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9781557133342 | Reprint edition (Sun & Moon Pr, July 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An edition of the first two plays in Mac Wellman's highly successful quartet of plays.

From the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama 1960-1995

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Product Description: Like the 1,200-page volume of American poetry before it, From The Other Side of the Century II explores literature of the last quarter century, this time American dramatic writing, making available important theater texts for reading and teaching...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Douglas Messerli (editor) and Mac Wellman (editor)

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9781557132475 | Green Integer Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Like the 1,200-page volume of American poetry before it, From The Other Side of the Century II explores literature of the last quarter century, this time American dramatic writing, making available important theater texts for reading and teaching.

Annie Salem: An American Tale

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Product Description: Book by Wellman, Mac

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9781557132079 | Sun & Moon Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Wellman, Mac

The Land Beyond the Forest: Dracula and Swoop

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9781557132284 | Sun & Moon Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition.

Two Plays: A Murder of Crows and the Hyacinth Macaw

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Product Description: Book by Wellman, Mac

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9781557131973 | Sun & Moon Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Book by Wellman, Mac

The Bad Infinity: Eight Plays

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Product Description: THE BAD INFINITY is the first published collection of plays by one of America's best-known and most widely performed experimental playwrights. Mac Wellman's biting social satire, Joycean language games, outrageous humor, and provocative subject matter have been the focus of critical acclaim on both coasts and stormy controversy on Capitol Hill...read more

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9780801846878 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: THE BAD INFINITY is the first published collection of plays by one of America's best-known and most widely performed experimental playwrights.

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