Subculture

by Steve Yockey

Ten Minute Plays/ Various male and female roles Two men at the end of the world, a woman who believes she turns children to stone, some college students with alcohol and a sledgehammer, the perpetrator of a hit-and-run accident, a man obsessed with asphyxiation, and a roadside elephant in India. The very broken characters that inhabit this collection of shorts wander through a dimly lit, over stimulated and paranoia-fueled world that exists just underneath the dominant popular culture. From the darkly comic to the starkly distressing, these uneasy little plays are tightly wound, structurally adventurous glimpses into some of the most simultaneously intimate and harrowing moments of everyday life. (every little thing) sucker punch kiss & tell dizziness & loss of breath snuff film lonesome stop motion swallow (stereo) headphones medusa

Genres: Plays, Drama

116 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2010

Reviews

[Cassie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yockey writes plays that are short, beautiful and sad. He takes things that were once taboo: homosexuality, abortion, prostitution, murder, and he finds a way to make them more sordid and more romantic. This is done in a way that allows the reader to come about a realization of the exquisite melancholia that exists in the everyday life. A good impression for a first time Yockey reader