Eric Overmyer

Strange, dream-like plays- Definitely American Experimental. More performance-art than "straight" plays- music/poetry. Picked it out of a Library book sale because it was a collection of plays I'd never heard of by an Author I hadn't known.

Original cast lists in front of the plays themselves: Jimmy Smits and Samuel L. Jackson in the first play, "Native Speech," Nathan Lane was in one, Gina Torres in another, Lauren Tom in another, and David Strathairn and Frances McDormand in yet another. All of them Actors who tend to pick good material- I'd go to watch them in whatever they're in.

Notsomething I'd read constantly or even expect to be performed in repertory, but helps to broaden your horizons beyond better-known playwrights.… (more)