This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie
Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the
new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny,
strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including
an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble
(Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses
that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a
group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity
underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow, among other
uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its
finger firmly planted on the pulse of new work, and these plays prove
it.
Includes the plays The Typographer's Dream by Adam Bock, Crumble (Lay
Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan, Demon Baby by Erin
Courtney, 16 Spells to Charm the Beast by Lisa D'Amour, Inky by
Rinne Groff, Dearest Eugenia Haggis by Ann Marie Healy, Freakshow by
Carson Kreitzer