Description
Drama. Poetry. California Interest. 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.
Author Bio
C. Dylan Bassett is a poet, playwright, and translator. He is the author of THE INVENTION OF MONSTERS / PLAYS FOR THE THEATRE (Plays Inverse Press, 2015) and four additional chapbooks. His recent poems are published or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, Seattle Review, Washington Square and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he's currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz.
Author City: SANTA CRUZ, CA USA