Play: A Journal of Plays - Issue 3

by Jordan Harrison (Editor), Sylvan Oswald (Editor), Doug Bost

Featuring previously unpublished workDoug Bost, Lisa D'Amour, David Greenspan, Cynthia Hopkins, Liz Meriwether, and Katie Pearl. Introduction by the Editors.

Play: A Journal Of Plays is devoted to reinventing the life of plays on the page. Play: A Journal Of Plays publish open texts, instruction manuals, scenarios, song cycles, choreographic notations, and other evidence that the inside of the playwright's brain seldom resembles standard formatting.

325 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Jordan Harrison is a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play MARJORIE PRIME, which was recently revived on Broadway. His other plays include THE ANTIQUITIES, MAPLE AND VINE, and THE AMATEURS. Harrison is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Horton Foote Prize for Best New American Play. As a screenwriter, his credits include three seasons as writer/producer of the Netflix original series ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK. Harrison is a graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA Creative Writing program. MISS ARCHER is his first novel.

Reviews

[Tyler Crumrine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still wonderfully curated, but with a more uniform structure/typography to go along with the over-arching theme of architecture. Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl's Always/Never Her Trilogy is endlessly fascinating, and the meta-theatricality of David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy took me by surprise in the best way possible. I feel like I keep gushing about this journal, but it really is a prime example of play publishing done right. I'm also very excited to see HEDDATRON, first published here, performed in Pittsburgh later this year.