Book DescriptionThe 5th annual collection of new plays contains an eclectic mix of styles and subjects, all produced during the 2002-2003 theatrical season Includes an introduction by Francis Hill, Artistic Director of Urban Stages, an Off-Broadway theater in New York City Smashing by Brooke Berman - A comedy about a young woman determined to огзпа confront a novelist who has thinly fictionalized their love affair when she was a teen and he was a student of her father (a successful novelist Corner Wars by Tim Dowlin - A poignant drama about teenaged drug dealers in Philadelphia This play won the prestigious Oppenheimer Award, which is annually awarded to the outstanding debut by a new playwright Midnight by David Epstein - A backstage showbiz comedyset in the 1950s Spanish Girl by Hunt Holman - A comedy about college students Homebound by Javon Johnson A drama about juvenile delinquents in a detention facility Phat Girls by Debbie Lamedman -A very inventive comedy about teen female self image The Sweepers by John C Picardi - A comic drama about Italian American women keeping the home fires burning during World War II.  Трудные времена2005 г ISBN 1575253860.