Yasmine Beverly Rana s "The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays" followsjourneys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabul. The charactersin Rana s politically charged and moving plays attempt to seek and sustain love in violent circumstances.

In the title play, "The War Zone is My Bed," a prostitute from Kabul and a journalist from Bosniastumble through a maze of brutality to find solace withineach other. In "Blood Sky" a traumatic event is triggered by a...

This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, anddisplacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups and still seeking to establish democracy and human rights.

The title play, Mustafa Kaplan s "Solum," deals with questions of home and identity as explored through physical research on the performer s body. Other plays included are Murathan Mungan s "As on the...

The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa s "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays "explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease.In one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders emotionally (as in "Awakening"), physically (as in "Comet Hunter") or socially (as in "Broken Morning"), and the line that separates life and death is thin.""In the title play, a woman in New...