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Streamers, copyright © 1976, 1977 by David William Rabe. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Samuel French, Inc., 235 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 and other inquiries to the author’s agent, Joyce Ketay, The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Botticelli, copyright © 1968 by Terrence McNally. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 and other inquiries to the author’s agent Jonathan Lomma, WME Entertainment, Inc., 11 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

How I Got That Story, copyright © 1979, 1981 by Amlin Gray. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 and other inquiries to the author c/o the publisher.

Medal of Honor Rag, copyright © 1977, 1983 by Tom Cole. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Samuel French, Inc., 235 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003.

Moonchildren, copyright © 1980 by Michael Weller. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Samuel French, Inc., 235 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 and all other inquiries to the author’s agent, Joyce Ketay, The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010.

Still Life, copyright © 1979 by Emily Mann. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 and other inquiries to the author’s agent, Kate Navin, The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010.

Strange Snow, copyright © 1983 by Stephen Metcalfe. All inquiries regarding stock and amateur rights should be addressed to Samuel French, Inc., 235 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 and other inquiries to the author’s agent, Rachel Viola, United Talent Agency, 888 Seventh Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10106.

Cover photograph of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial by Charles Tasnadi,

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ISBN 978-1-55936-851-3 (ebook)

First Edition, 1985

New Edition, September 2016