Overview
Eddie Mundo Edmundo by Lynne Alvarez - After the death of his mother, a young Hispanic-American travels to a remote fishing village on the Gulf coast of Mexico to find the essence of his heritage and encounters the conflicts of culture, the roots of his family, the excitement of new love, and a mysterious young fisherman with mutant features.Class Action by Brad Slaight - A tapestry of high school life, outside the classroom, revealing a powerful picture of youthful truth. Through the weave of scenes and speechees, a humorous and poignant voice emerges, challenging our perspective of the formative encounters at school.
Synopsis
This collection of four plays comes from the Young Conservatory at the American Conservatory Theatre, a professional theatre-training program for young people ages eight to eighteen. This book is a wonderful resource for young actors.
Library Journal
Based in San Francisco, A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory is a professional theater training program for people eight to 18 years old. Editor Slaight, director of the conservatory, has published several volumes of scenes and monologs and began the New Plays program with the goal of developing plays that view the world through the eyes of youth. Playwrights featured here are Paul Zindel, Timothy Mason, Brad Slaight, and Lynn Alvarez. Exemplifying the issues touched by these plays, Paul Zindel's Every 17 Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy focuses on a family of eight children left on their own by parents who ran away to pursue a life of gambling. Thought-provoking and sometimes chilling, these four plays offer challenging roles for young performers. Recommended for comprehensive drama collections serving the high school and college levels.Howard E. Miller, Alliance Blue Cross & Blue Shield Lib., St. Louis