<DIV><p>This new volume brings together plays from four of the best young artists on the contemporary American playwriting scene. Includes: <I>Kin</I> by Bathsheba Doran, <I>Middletown</I> by Will Eno, <I>Completeness</I> by Itamar Moses, and <I>God's Ear</I> by Jenny Schwartz, with introductions written by Christopher Durang, Gordon Lish, Doug Wright, and Edward Albee.</p><BR><BR>"The the four plays in this volume [are] fresh, original and distinctive. Each is verbally deft, and delights in language and its power to entertain, disturb, and just plain dazzle. Each is about human connection ? the pain and the difficulty of human connection. And each of these four plays is hopeful, and ultimately optimistic [?] four wonderful plays by four writers with bright pasts and bright futures? The United States is in a golden age of American playwriting ? whether we acknowledge it or not ? and the four talented writers in this volume strongly attest to that." - André Bishop (from his Introduction)<BR></DIV>