Cesi Davidson's Laterals

 

 I'm pleased to announce the release of Cesi Davidson's Laterals, in both print and ebook editions, from Aqueduct Press. Laterals is the 102nd volume in the Conversation Pieces series and is available now from Aqueduct Press at https://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-292-3.

 Cesi Davidson is positioned as a master of brevity among American playwrights. The Laterals collection is beautifully crafted and remarkable. Davidson is much admired for her contribution of hundreds of plays to the theatre landscape that are dense with unpredictable impact. The stories are satisfying to read or view on stage. The hearing and seeing audiences are absorbed into her unique styles of magical realism. The characters speak for us revealing unimagined truths of the past and present. The characters provide us with rehearsal time for navigating a world often confused. You’ll find joyous relief and thoughtful entertainment here. The plays in the Laterals anthology are fantastic adventures. These works of literary art champion her mission to demonstrate through storytelling her core belief, “We are one human family.” 

You can read a sample from the book here:  https://www.aqueductpress.com/books/samples/978-1-61976-292-3.pdf.

“In Laterals, Cesi Davidson brings together an imaginative collection of short plays and poems that traverse the landscapes of memory, identity, resilience, and belonging. Historical figures share the stage with invented characters in worlds that stretch from a sperm bank to the rural Tennessee of 1890. Moving seamlessly between realism, absurdity, and magic, Davidson reveals the surprising ways lives intersect across time and circumstance. Thoughtful, witty, and deeply humane, Laterals is a memorable collection that resonates long after the final page.”
 — Anna Steegman, Staff Writer for the New York City Jazz Record

“Laterals, a mix of jaw dropping tunes. Cesi Davidson orchestrates a play the way a masterful band leader refines musicians to create a brilliant ensemble composition. Her pen is her conductor’s baton. Every character in each play has opportunity to shine; a solo rocking out, chilling out, or energetic stillness. And when the characters come together with dialogue there is no question—there is one story unfolding and that story is captivating. With magical realism this author brings us in and out of historical- based possibilities, imagined worlds, and ideas seldom considered. The reader, the audience, joins in the fiction creating the music with the humanity we all share.”
 —Tonya Pinkins, Actor, Producer, Director, Screenwriter