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.