Compiled together for the first time, here are three play by Argentine novelist and playwright Manuel Puig: the well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative take of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail; Puig's first drama written directly for the stage, Under a Mantle of Stars, a recurring dream that is never ending; and Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, an astute tale of deep compassion and illusion.

These eminently readable plays highlight all the gifts that make Puig's fiction so remarkable. This is convincting proof that Manuel Puig was one of our most talented writers--no matter what the medium.