"AND DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE?": AUDITION PIECES FROM CANADIAN PLAYS Edited by Margaret Hard, Peter Messaline and Miriam Newhouse Toronto, Simon & Pierre, 1991. 106pp, paper, $14.95 ISBN 0-88924-217-8. CIP Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up Reviewed by Melanie Fogel Volume 20 Number 3 1992 May This is a successor to And What Are You Going to Do for Us?, com posed of excerpts from plays produced in the last ten years. In the meantime, however, The Perfect Piece was published. And if you can afford only one, it's important to compare the two (please see table below). Although many of the plays appear in both volumes, only four monologues are duplicated. All in all,And Do You Have Anything Else? looks more like an ego trip for the theatre industry in this country. Unless you need the most recently produced material, The Perfect Piece is a better buy. The Perfect Piece Number of pieces: over 130 Price: $12.95 Performance time given: yes Context explained: yes Includes performance hints: no Includes biographies of playwrights: no Includes biographies of translators: no Includes first production date and theatre: no And Do You Have Anything Else? Number of pieces: 40 Price: $14.95 Performance time given: yes Context explained: yes (sometimes by the playwright) Includes performance hints: yes but fatuous (e.g., in a monologue that opens with “If you screw around with this I’ll kill you. I was really upset even before the funeral” the hint says, “There is both anger and pain in the speech.”) Includes biographies of playwrights: yes, but why? Includes biographies of translators: yes, but why? Includes first production date and theatre: yes Melanie Fogel, Ottawa, Ont.