When life gives you risk make risk theatre: three tragedies and six essays

Foreword / Robert C. Evans

Preface / Edwin Wong

Part I. The Risk Theatre tragedies

An introduction to In bloom by the playwright / Gabriel Jason Dean

About Gabriel Jason Dean

In bloom / by Gabriel Jason Dean ; Dari transliterations by Humaira Ghilzai ; music by David Dabbon

An introduction to The value by the playwright / Nicholas Dunn

About Nicholas Dunn

The value / by Nicholas Dunn

An introduction to Children of combs and watch chains by the playwright / Emily McClain

About Emily McClain

Children of combs and watch chains / by Emily McClain

The Risk Theatre essays

Faces of chance in Shakespeare's tragedies: Othello's handkerchief and Macbeth's moving grove

Greek tragedy, black swans, and the coronavirus: the consolation of theatre

The price of patriotism: opportunity cost and the American Dream in Arthur Miller's All my sons

Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes: a patriot's portrait of a patriot

But who does Caesar render unto? Three faces of risk in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Tragedy, comedy, and chance in Hardy's Far from the madding crowd

Maxims and arrows

Acknowledgments / Edwin Wong.