The first major collection by playwright Emily Mann contains four powerful docudramas. Based on extensive interviews of real people’s experiences, these plays explore various moral issues and questions that still resonate in America today. is a solo piece featuring the reflections of an elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by pretending to by Aryan. Jerry Talmer of the calls “one bangup 90 minutes of theatre…I don’t know when I’ve been stimulated as much by anything on the living stage.” is composed of interviews with a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, the pregnant wife he physically and emotionally abuses, and the mistress who finds herself entranced by his passion and violence. This Obie Award-winning play is “a powerful affair, full of passion and viability…Mann offers no easy answers or pat solutions, she simply invites us into these three characters' lives” ( ). follows the trial of the former policeman who shot San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. Called “thought-provoking…a taut courtroom drama” ( ), “is theatre reasserting its claim on the country’s moral conscience” ( is “a particularly all-American tragedy” ( ) as Mann interviews those involved in the largely unreported 1979 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Greensboro police force, and FBI. “a provocation, a potent exposé of the ‘less-than-human thing’ which fuels the politics of hate and injustice in America.”