Women Playwrights - The Best Plays of 1994 - Off the Map by Joan Ackermann & Others

Off the Map by Joan Ackermann & The Reincarnation of Jaimie Brown by Lynne A1arez & Moe's Lucky Seven by Marlane Meyer & The Family of Mann by Theresa Rebeck & Girl Gone by Jacquelyn Reingold & Hot 'n' Throbbing by Paula Vogel & Come To Leave by Allison Eve Zell

In this third annual volume, four of the seven plays have a lighter tone and more humor than those in last year's collection, but the two most dramatic are centered on the sex industry and murder. The playwrights are not as ethnically diverse as last year's group, and, once again, there is no criteria given for the selection and inclusion of these works. (The publisher's note says that submissions are made by playwrights, agents, literary managers, and theaters)

Still, the playwrights who were selected?Joan Ackermann, Lynne Alvarez, Marlane Meyer, Theresa Rebeck, Jacquelyn Reingold, Paula Vogel, and Allison Eve Zell?present fresh, intriguing selections in a variety of voices. Recommended for contemporary drama collections