Plays of Love and Rage

Mark W. Lee’s award-winning plays premiered in New York, London and Los Angeles. Four of these plays can be found in this collection along with essays that describe how – and why – each play was written.

CALIFORNIA DOG FIGHT

Four men and two women meet at an illegal dog fight on the Sacramento delta. Written in the 1980’s, the play presaged the growing rage, resentment and violence that dominate American politics and culture in the twenty-first century.

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