David Epstein is a classic American playwright. 
 
His work across multiple genres, from screenplays to theatrical comedies to off-Broadway musicals, captures some of the most essential qualities of our national character in the often bleak, often grimly comic times in which we live. Now this three-volume collection with much of Epstein’s best work is available from Rivertowns Books.
 
The Arky Trilogy is a series of three plays—Mahalo, Desperados, and Arky—tracing the story of an American family navigating a years-long crisis driven by a child’s mental illness. By turns harrowing, wildly comic, and deeply affecting, The Arky Trilogy vividly captures the shocking twists of life as experienced by one family touched by terror and grounded in love. “A suite of innovative and emotional dramas depicting an embattled family.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
Exact Change and Other Plays. In these three plays (Exact Change, Hair of the Dog, and Shades), Epstein brilliantly sketches the dark, despairing—and howlingly funny—underside of contemporary American life. Exact Change “fizzes with talent.”—Benedict Nightingale, The Times of London 
 
Wanted and Other Plays. From a surreal musical satire featuring much-loved American rogues like Billy The Kid and Ma Barker to a bitter takedown of the Iraq War and its toll on one family, these four plays expose painful home truths about our nation’s soul. Wanted is “that rare thing, a show that is as funny as it is provocative. I recommend it wholeheartedly.”—Clive Barnes, New York Times
 
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