THE MANIFESTO SERIES To create a Manifesto Series volume, Rain City Projects commissions a nationally recognized playwright to write a mission for or vision of what theater could be. They then edit a compilation of 5 to 8 plays, culled from the ranks of works with a link to the Pacific Northwest that best illustrate their personal manifesto for the theater. A THEATER OF DEFIANCE Here's to a theater of defiance A message in a bottle A virus in the system A warrior cry across the wilderness of the bland, the safe, and the familiar. - So begins Naomi Iisuza's manifesto for Manifest Series Volume 3 HERE'S TO A THEATER OF DEFIANCE. It's not about naturalism or magical realism or any other ism. Rain City Project's third volume includes: Language Rooms by Yussef El Guindi; Clubfoot by Bret Fetzer and Stephen McCandless; Mitzi's Abortion by Elizabeth Heffron; Vera Wilde by Chris Jeffries; An American Book of the Dead by Paul Mullin; Live! From the Last Night of My Life by Wayne Rawley; and Wizzer Pizzer by Amy Wheeler MORE ABOUT RAIN CITY PROJECTS RCP is dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing professional playwrights and their work in the Pacific Northwest. Our goals include raising the profile of the playwright within the working theater community and furthering an understanding of the playwright's role to the larger community. We encourage the presence and participation of the playwright in the rehearsal process, and work to educate audiences around the relationship of text to performance. Our current programs include Sweetness Grants that provide travel stipends for playwrights to attend rehearsals and premiere performances of their works and publishing the Manifesto Series, a unique Biennial anthology of new works.

Manifesto Series V.3: A THEATER OF DEFIANCE

Yussef El Guindi

Naomi Iizuka

Bret Fetzer

Stephen McCandless

Elizabeth Heffron

Chris Jeffries

Paul Mullin

Wayne Rawley

Amy Wheeler

Rain City Projects

LIVING AND WRITING ON AMERICA S LEFT COAST: Contemporary Women's Plays is an anthology of diverse and brilliant cutting-edge drama that fills a significant need to hear the voices of women as interpreters of the human experience in the US and beyond. Selected by nomination, the works are penned by five critically acclaimed playwrights as well as an emerging playwright whose vision and literary fortitude prove that theatre thrives on the Western edge of the United States of America. The collection is introduced in a panoptic foreword by Jon Klein, playwright and head of the Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting program at Catholic University, Washington DC. As Nicholas Kristof, co-author with Sheryl Wudunn of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they re the solution. This new collection offers views into the varied lives of women characters as they navigate a world in which women are still only one percent of the world's landowners.

Living and Writing on America's Left Coast: Contemporary Women's Plays

Marianne McDonald

Velina Hasu Houston

Paula Cizmar

Laura Shamas

Stephanie Swirsky

LRS (Library Reproduction Service)

Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls

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Something happened to Chloe after that party last Saturday night. Something she says she can't remember. Something everybody is talking about. Set at a Midwestern high school, in a world of Facebook and Twitter, smartphones and YouTube, Good Kids explores a casual sexual encounter gone wrong and its very public aftermath. Who's telling the truth? Whose version of the story do you believe? And what does that say about you?

Good Kids

Playscripts, Inc.

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