We are pleased to announce the July 27, 2012 publication date for a new book of Oobleck scripts.
The five plays, all written by Oobleck founding members, will be published by Hope on Nonthings, which previously published Mickle Maher’s Oobleck plays An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening and The Hunchback Variations in 2001 and The Strangerer and Spirits To Enforce in 2008.
More If You’ve Got It: 5 Plays from Theater Oobleck will include, in the order they were produced by Oobleck:
Ugly’s First World, by Jeffrey Dorchen
Necessity, by Danny Thompson
Innocence and Other Vices, by Dave Buchen
Letter Purloined, by David Isaacson
and
There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, by Mickle Maher.
There will be an introduction by Terri Kapsalis and a forward by Tony Award-winning playwright Greg Kotis.
Other publications available from Oobleck authors are:
- Short plays by Dorchen, Isaacson, Maher, and Thompson published in last autumn’s issue of The Louisville Review (available on back order or now through pdf download)
- Terri Kapsalis’ The Hysterical Alphabet and Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum
- Mickle Maher’s picture book for children Master Stitchum and the Moon
- and a number of Dave Buchen’s hand-printed books, available through his website.