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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field Nine New Plays Mac Wellman Foreword by Helen Shaw Table of Contents PRESS BOMBLog review		$22.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5505-2 $69.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5504-5
A new collection from one of America’s leading avant-garde playwrights. Known for his verbal invention and radical experimentation, Mac Wellman is one of America’s most original and essential dramatists. Since seizing the spotlight with 7 Blowjobs in the early nineties, Wellman has charted an ambitious artistic course. As a fixture on the downtown New York theater scene, and now with his work being staged around the world, he has challenged directors, designers, producers, actors, audiences, and readers for nearly three decades. In this new book, Wellman brings together nine recent plays, including some of his most provocative work, Antigone, Infrared, and The Invention of Tragedy. With their feisty heroines, crisp dialogue, and noir influences, the works in The Difficulty of Crossing a Field reveal a playwright at the peak of his powers, and the collection concludes with Speculations, Wellman’s bold theatrical vision presented as lyrical prose. “The dialogue is always playful, in a manner that would immediately remind any lover of modern playwriting of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.” —The Minnesota Daily “Mac Wellman’s new book of plays, The Difficulty Crossing a Field, forges new ground in this peculiar form of print content. White space is a major player.” —Bomb Magazine Mac Wellman is an award-winning playwright. In 2003, he received his third Obie for Lifetime Achievement. Previous published collections include Bad Infinity and Cellophane, and he is the coeditor of New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York (Minnesota, 2006). He is professor of playwriting at Brooklyn College. Helen Shaw is a New York theater critic whose work appears in the New York Times and Time Out New York. 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: Mac Wellman and Things of the Devil Helen Shaw Infrared Jennie Richee; or, Eating Jalooka Fruit before It’s Ripe Antigone The Fez The Difficulty of Crossing a Field Bitter Bierce; or, The Friction We Call Grief Psychology; or, Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood A Morphology of Small Errors, and Catalogue of the Cahoonery of Moths and Spiders The Invention of Tragedy  Speculations: An Essay on the Theater

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