Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon '99

The annual anthology of original one-act plays from New York's premiere developmental theater--now a Faber paperback original The One-Act Plays: Deaf Dayby Leslie Ayvazian Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truthby Edward Allan Baker Warby Bill Bozzone The Once Attractive Womanby Christine Farrell The Golf Ballby Frank D. Gilroy Dreamtime for Aliceby Susan Kim Goodbye, Oscarby Romulus Linney Maiden Laneby Cassandra Medley In the Western Gardenby Stuart Spencer All About Alby Cherie Vegelstein The "I" Word: Internsby Michael Louis Wells The Ensemble Studio Theatre is best known for its Marathon of One-Act Plays, in which, over a period of six weeks, twelve plays receive their New York premieres. Included in the '99 anthology are Romulus Linney'sGoodbye Oscar, wherein Oscar Wilde, exiled in Paris, gravely ill, and fighting a losing battle with his wallpaper, meets Jesus Christ in a fifth-rate cafe; Stuart Spencer'sIn the Western Garden, set on the east end of Long Island where a once-great abstract artist grapples with the gradual loss of his mind while his art dealer scrambles to possess his rumored final masterpieces; and Susan Kim'sDreamtime for Alice, in which Alice, accidentally left behind by her tour bus in the Australian outback, examines the stark realities of her life in a neurotic, hilarious, and revealing monologue that rivals Woody Allen and Spalding Gray at their best. With work that ranges from the deeply affecting to the sublimely funny by both established and up-and-coming playwrights, this anthology is a must for anyone interested in what's happening in theater on a grassroots level.Ensemble Studio Theatre Staff is the author of 'Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon '99' with ISBN 9780571199815 and ISBN 057119981X.