Collected Short Plays

by James Schevill

In a time that emphasizes media spectaculars, the short play offers an exploration of minimal possibilities yet has the power to fix history in a moment's structure, a flash of revelation. The short play is a powerful and innovative theatrical medium, relying upon compression and clarity rather than amplification, and reducing character and action to a spare, dramatic core. Schevill uses the short play to explore the power of the American environment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804003920
• ISBN13: 9780804003926
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 280 Pages