Plays from New River 1

This is the first volume of Plays from the New River, a place where gifted writers of plays and screenplays are paid and nurtured to write whatever they most want to write. These three very different plays are among the results. Wendy Hammond's Absence considers an era of American foreign policy by focusing on the intensely human story of a Mormon couple suffering the collateral damage of those times. American Girls by Hilary Bettis shows us the hilariously terrifying results when teenage girls grow up in a culture that simultaneously worships Christianity and celebrity. And Ribalow's own Masterpiece raises timeless questions about the nature of art, the relation of reality to illusion, and who gets to decide these dilemmas. Each play has a distinctive voice, subject and style; all were developed in the unique setting of New River Dramatists.