<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">In the first anthology of this series, Chicago and Baltimore playwrights share short plays written for the stage. Performance-ready new ideas, contained within insightful dialogue and monologues span, the pages of this anthology. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Since America earned its title as "the melting pot" by most historians, Future Publishing House combines with playwrights and theatre artistry to create this unequivocally dynamic collection of work. As artists living with the freedom to create meaningful new work, the plays in this first volume inform the beginning of a millennia of performance art. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Plays comment on universal themes:</span></p><ul><li><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Emma Rund</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">'s</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">characters in </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">To Fix a Dinosaur</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> deal with conditional forgiveness. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">The struggle of political power to overcome scientific knowledge comes through in </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">John Joseph Enright</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">'s </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Starry Night</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Women's liberation ideas are featured in </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Easy as Pie</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Melania Coffey</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Gentrification is discussed in poetic verse in </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Alexander Scally</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">'s </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Chalked.</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Jealousy, envy, and the future of humanity are addressed in </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Dylan Kinnett</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">'s </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Party Planet</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">.</span></li><li>A scene from a play by <strong>Cameron Sheppard </strong>is dramatic and biographic</li></ul><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Some pieces in this anthology fall into symbolism, surrealism, and absurdism, such as </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Barbara Bryan</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">'s </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Leaving the Universe</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">. Other plays are written as melodramas, such as </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Love, Lust, Lyrics ' Stamps</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Matt Brown</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> and </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Andre Thespies</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">With an introduction by editor </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Shaun Vain</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">.</span></p>
