The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theatre

The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theatre C Dylan Bassett $14.95  Somewhere between monologue and stage direction, the one-act plays in The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theatre center around what it means to be ill-cast in life. How it feels to wear a costume, a body, a face. How sex can be both transformative and nightmarish. Each scene-poem is the tip of an iceberg, evoking a larger performance rather than operating as a conventional script. A new kind of theatre text, these plays/poems beg to be performed, with exactly how depending entirely on the reader.   One-Act Play Collection, Prose Poetry, Prompts for Devised Theatre Cast: 1A-? Cover design by Chelsea Majuri   REVIEWS   DIAGRAM   PRAISE These are ravishing performance texts—concise prose poems that invite active interpretation. How are they to be brought to the stage—as monologues, as dialogues, as stage directions indicating a mise-en-scéne—or as a combination thereof? Alternately playful, sexual, and morali