Approaching Zanzibar and other plays

About this book

With her signature absurdism and lyrical language, acclaimed American playwright Tina Howe contemplates love, marriage, family, death, art and, ultimately, the very wonder of life. Including one of her first plays, Birth and After Birth, her most recent play, One Shoe Off, and the surrealistic masterpiece Approaching Zanzibar, this anthology encompasses a career of innovation and irreverence that spans three decades.