The International Centre for Women Playwrights has collected an eclectic group of scenes excerpted from the work of contemporary playwrights around the world. This anthology offers drama teachers and their students acting resources that reflect the true diversity of the world we all inhabit. This anthology was designed as a vibrant alternative to the many popular, mainstream scene study books available today. Traditional publishing houses are often limited in the type of material they publish by the real -- or perceived -- lack of marketability of more "edgy" play scripts, plays that...

Eden is a girl Frankenstein, hand made by a mad scientist out of prom-night accident victims and struggling to make sense of a world that doesn't match the one on Nickelodeon. Darcy is an ordinary teenage nerd -- brainy, insecure, and all too savvy in the cutthroat ways of mean girls and oversexed guys. Eden has super strength, lightening speed, and an uncanny ability to communicate with animals. Darcy has a fickle set of popular friends and a racy new blonde hairstyle. Who would have thought they would find so much in common -- including the same boy?