Critics Praise Three American Playwrights

Sarah Ruhl, Neil LaBute, and Suzan-Lori Parks are writing plays with great creativity and energy.
29 July 2007

Download MP3


Listen in RealAudio

Jean (talking on his phone):

"I think that there is a dead man sitting next to me.

(Pause)

I don't know how he died. I'm at a café." 


(MUSIC)

Evelyn: So everything is good?

Jenny: Yeah, you know, OK. You?

Evelyn: Pretty great actually. Just studying...working on my art.

Jenny: Right., You‘ve got that big thing that you are doing.

Evelyn: Thesis project, for my degree.

Jenny: And it's going well?

Evelyn: Yeah.

Jenny: What was it again?

Evelyn: I never said.

Jenny: Oh, well that's why.

Evelyn: Right. It's this sculpture thingie.

Jenny: Nice.  I think what you have done with Adam it's really great.

Evelyn: What I have done?

Jenny: Just, you know, he's changed.

Evelyn: That's right HE's changed.

Jenny: Of course, I didn't mean that you...

 Evelyn: I know, I am just saying, you know, he did the work.

Jenny: Right.

Writer: "Is the rule that I have to keep writing until I think of a play?"

Editor: "There are no rules."

Writer: "What if my mind is blank?"

www.365days365plays.com.


Voice of America Special English
www.manythings.org/voa/scripts/