This collection includes two short plays: ROGER AND VANESSA and SCOTCH AND WATER. ROGER AND VANESSA: Fresh out of prison, Roger has a scheme to make his volatile relationship with Vanessa, a manicurist, profitable through a singing act. The only problem is "You can't sing," says Vanessa. This sets off a hilarious battle in which Roger and Vanessa air their grievances with each other, and it comes to light that Vanessa is pregnant. Is Roger the father? And is their love sufficient to conquer the challenges that confront them? SCOTCH AND WATER: Raw, raucous, and surprisingly tender, SCOTCH AND...

Nine New York stories converge in a racially and sexually charged tale of love, justice, rage, and betrayal.

A devastating play about the impact of addiction, THE LONG RED ROAD introduces us to Sammy, who has fled his past and landed in South Dakota, where he is slowly drinking himself to death. When his young daughter arrives desperate to reunite with her father, he must decide between the self-hatred that consumes him and the responsibilities he's tried to leave behind. "THE LONG RED ROAD is a great work ... intensely moody, slowly paced, intimate and compellingly painful ... The play gets under your skin and convincingly takes you to the most unpleasant of psychic terrains. It ruins your day and,...

Three generations of an Italian-American family gather to mourn the death of their matriarch. "This is a play in microcosm, a full-blown artistic vision of reality, as clammy and ugly as any American play has ever come to capturing the mundane grimness of working class life as brilliantly as the early plays of Harold Pinter." -Harvey Perr, Stage and Cinema "An air of defeat hangs heavy on this gloomy (South Philadelphia) household ... This is the kind of home where the sun has to fight its way through greasy windowpanes ... What drives the play are the undercurrents of rage that flare up...