Plays by Janet Neipris

<p>This collection includes three full-length plays: A SMALL DELEGATION ALMOST IN VEGAS and THE AGREEMENT. A SMALL DELEGATION: Three American professors come to teach in China the summer before Tiananmen Square. ALMOST IN VEGAS: When Margie decides she wants a child her affair with Louis a married man gets complicated. THE AGREEMENT: A husband and wife cheered on by their respective lawyers hastily and hilariously divide the spoils of their marriage.</p><p><br></p><p>A SMALL DELEGATION:</p><p>  This compelling play set in China in 1988 just one year prior to the Tiananmen Square massacre is a serious study of the political atmosphere of the country during that year. The drama also examines the enormous barriers which hinder understanding between east and west.</p><p>Gemini Williams Summer Pennsylvanian</p><p><br></p><p>  Neipris's method is one of accretion piecing together a complex mosaic. We come to see each individual in the drama attempting to cope with a political system that seems almost random in its changeability. Neipris's even-handedness in dealing with her characters is such that even as we blame the system for Sun's fate we also blame Remy-and ourselves by extension since her instincts are our own. Written from a western perspective this feels like an inside job in its merging of illusion and reality.</p><p>Clifford Ridley The Inquirer (Philadelphia)</p><p><br></p><p>ALMOST IN VEGAS:</p><p>  A wonderfully moving and touching play.</p><p>Patrick O'Connor Backstage</p><p><br></p><p>  Neipris is trying to touch something deeper than the funny bone. The play becomes a study of decent people trying to understand their own needs and the lovers who cannot fulfill them.</p><p>Walter Goodman The New York Times</p><p><br></p><p>THE AGREEMENT:</p><p>  This is a funny and wise play. Neipris has a wonderful ear for the way people talk when they are trying to say the right thing in an unfamiliar and unnerving situation.</p><p>D J R Bruckner The New York Times</p><p><br></p><p>  Funny and sad at the same time and that is always a tall order.</p><p>Nels Nelson Daily News (Philadelphia)</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>