Set in the gloriously rugged backwoods of the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Nina Shengold's gripping debut novel follows three people in search of new lives deep into uncharted terrain of the body and heart.
When rough-hewn loner Earley Ritter picks up a hitchhiker one rainy night, he can't imagine how much it will change his life. A "shake-rat" who salvages cedar stumps left when loggers clearcut, Earley seems to have little in common with Reed Alton, a gifted Berkeley dropout. But when Earley meets Zan, the fiery and mysterious woman Reed has been following, erotic sparks fly in...

Plays for Twois a unique anthology of twenty-eight terrific plays for two actors, by a mix of celebrated playwrights and cutting-edge new voices.
It takes two to tango or to perform a duet, fight a duel, or play ping-pong. The two-character play is dramatic confrontation stripped to its essence.These four full-length and twenty-four short plays feature pairs of every sort strangers, rivals, parents and children, siblings, co-workers, friends, and lovers swooning or sparring, meeting cute or parting ways. In a dizzying range of moods and styles, these two-handers offer the kind of...

The most famous love story of all time, Romeo And Juliet, has been edited from William Shakespeare's text for a cast of five, and with a running time of seventy-five minutes.