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I Am a Man (Powa Ta Da Peepas)
by Oyamo
Paperback
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I Am My Own Wife
by Doug Wright
Paperback
From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century -- the Nazis and the Communists -- while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi. In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).
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In a Dark Dark House: A Play
by Neil LaBute
Paperback
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Incomplete & Random Acts of Kindness
by David Eldridge
Paperback
Joey loses his mother and takes on the mentoring of a troubled, young black boy named Trevor. Joey's stepmother tries to keep him in check, and his dad wants to build bridges with him, but when Trevor gets killed, his family wants answers from Joey.
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In the Blood
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Paperback
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Indian Ink
by Tom Stoppard
Paperback, 83 pages
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Indian Ink: Krishnan's Dairy / The Candlestickmaker / The Pickle King
by Justin Lewis, Jacob Rajan
Paperback
The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: Will I find love? How can I find happiness? and What is worth preserving? Western theatrical traditions fuse with Indian flavors in the telling of three stories that are accessible to all cultures.
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In Extremis
by Howard Brenton
Paperback
One night, a society palm-reader agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde's lover was urging him to sue the Marquis of Queensberry for criminal libel. But Wilde's friends were warning him to leave town. In Extremis reveals the strange turmoil of that night, as a man at the height of his fame turns to a complete stranger for advice about a potentially life-changing decision.
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In the Heart of America and Other Plays
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback
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Innocent Eye Test
by Michael Healey
Paperback
A grand Tuscan hotel. A gathering place for people from across the globe. Two transactions. In one, art is for sale; in the other, weapons-grade plutonium. When the money gets mixed up, it is up to Canadian art dealer and world-class innocent Samuel Kneck to sort it all out. An old-fashioned farce about contemporary anxieties, from the author of the award-winning The Drawer Boy.
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Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
Paperback
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In Real Life
by Charlayne Woodard
Paperback
In the final play of her autobiographical trilogy that began with Pretty Fire and continued with Neat, In Real Life finds Charlayne Woodard pursuing her dreams in New York City. From her early days as a struggling actor to her nomination for a Tony Award, the harsh realities of Broadway are balanced by the unusual and comforting characters that touched her life.
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Inside Out
by Tanika Gupta
Paperback
Teenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent family life, they move from dreams to betrayal - with devastating results. Inside Out is commissioned by Clean Break, a women's theatre company working with women in prison, women ex-offenders and women who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The play is the provocative and funny story of how the sisters fight for a better future.
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Inspecting Carol
by Daniel Sullivan
Paperback
A theatre company attempts a production of "A Christmas Carol" - emphasis on "attempts."
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Instant Applause: 26 Very Short Complete Plays
by Playwrights Canada Press
Paperback
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Inventing Van Gogh
by Steven Dietz
Paperback
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The Invention of Love
by Tom Stoppard
Paperback
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Isolated: Two Plays
by Greg MacArthur
Paperback
"[MacArthur] has a beautiful voice and his analysis of the unpredictability of our sexuality, at once nurturing and predatory, is shrewd." --Globe and Mail
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Israel Horovitz Collected Works: Two Trilogies
by Israel Horovitz
Paperback
From Booklist: Includes the Growing-Up-Jewish Trilogy, a sweet, witty adaptation of A Good Place to Come From (1973), Morley Torgov's short stories about growing up Jewish in Canada in the 1940s, and the Alfred Trilogy, which portrays the tragicomedy of a small town's decline and fall in the 1970s. Besides the two trilogies, the volume includes an essay on the Alfred Trilogy by noted theater scholar Martin Esslin.
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I Still Love You
by Daniel MacIvor
Paperback
Five plays by Daniel MacIvor in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera. Includes: Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It, and A Beautiful View.
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Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
by Tom Mula
Paperback
Based on a one-man show written and performed by author Tom Mula, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol offers a unique and entertaining new twist on the familiar holiday tale. Readers follow Marley as he works behind the scenes to save Scrooge's soul. Funny, irreverent, and moving, this beautifully illustrated gift book promises to become a holiday favorite.
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Jane Martin: Collected Plays 1996-2001
by Jane Martin, Michael Bigelow Dixon (Editor)
Paperback
The ten plays in this collection include "Middle-Aged White Guys," a satire on the lost American dream set in a garbage dump and featuring a visit by an angelic Elvis. "Mr. Bundy" is a shocking examination of the dangers of self-righteous retribution, while "Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage" is a hilarious, Grand Guignol takeoff of B Westerns and slasher movies.
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Japes
by Simon Gray
Paperback
Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then share the woman they both love. They have a daughter, but who is the father? Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, Simon Gray's funny, sardonic new play Japes is driven by involuntary cruelties, damaging accidents of fate of the terrible ravages of time.
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Jar the Floor
by Cheryl West
Paperback
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Jason Sherman: The Plays
by Jason Sherman
Paperback
Includes: League of Nathans; Three in the Back, Two in the Head; The Retreat; Reading Hebron; Patience; and It's All True. Sherman won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for Three in the Back, Two in the Head, and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for The League of Nathans.
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Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Paperback
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Jim Cartwright: Plays: 1: Road / Bed / Two / The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
by Jim Cartwright
Paperback
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Jitney
by August Wilson
Textbook Binding
A thoroughly revised version of a play August Wilson first wrote in 1979, Jitney was produced in New York for the first time in the spring of 2000, winning rave reviews and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the Best Play of the Year. Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson's projected 10-play cycle (one for each decade) on the black experience in twentieth century America. He writes not about historical events or the pathologies of the black community, but, as he says, about "the unique particulars of black culture . . . I wanted to place this culture onstage in all its richness and fullness and to demonstrate its ability to sustain us . . . through profound moments in our history in which the larger society has thought less of us than we have thought of ourselves."
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
by August Wilson
Paperback
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Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
by Dario Fo
Paperback
Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. In a first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and help them fight conquistadors, it posits a riotous alternate history in which the dynamics between native and white, male and female, history and comedy are never what they seem.
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John Guare Volume 1: The War Against the Kitchen Sink
by John Guare
Paperback
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Journey to the West: A Play
by Mary Zimmerman
Paperback
This adaptation of a sixteenth-century Chinese comic novel is based on the true story of a seventh-century monk and his fabled sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India in search of sacred texts. Mixing whimsy with spiritual weight, Zimmerman's script delivers a delightful and thought-provoking combination of comedy, adventure, satire, and allegories of human perseverance.
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Jubilee
by Peter Barnes
Paperback
A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry. The author's ironic and irreverent comedy dissects the cult of the theatrical personality, with guest appearances from the Bard himself, Ben Johnson, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Peter Hall and Peter Barnes.
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The Judas Kiss
by David Hare
Paperback
Hare's superb, tender imagining of Oscar Wilde's last night before his arrest and, later, his exile from England.
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Judith Thompson 20th Century Plays: 1980-2000
by Judith Thompson
Paperback
By the end of the century, one of Canada's leading female playwrights had written, produced and published seven important and successful plays, all of which continue to be in demand both on stages and on academic courses. Includes: Crackwalker, I Am Yours, Lion in the Street, Sled, Perfect Pie, White Biting Dog and Pink.
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Juniper's Whitening / Victimese
by Helen Oyeyemi
Paperback
Two plays exploring the pain of living and the difficulty of dying by a new teenage sensation. Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She is an undergraduate at Cambridge University. Her first novel, The Icarus Girl, is published by Nan A. Talese in June 2005. This is the first publication of her plays.
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Just the Three of Us
by Simon Gray
Paperback
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Justifying War: Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry
by Richard Norton-Taylor (Editor)
Paperback
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Keely and Du
by Jane Martin
Paperback
Two women on opposite sides of the abortion issue -- one abducted by pro-life activists, the other one of her abductors -- must share a room and more than just political views in this ferocious, ambitious play.
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Kennedy Center Presents: Award-winning Plays from the American College Theater Festival
by Gary Garrison
Paperback
Entertaining, challenging, and sometimes startling, these plays introduce readers to the emerging playwrights who are sure to be the theater giants of tomorrow. Gary Garrison is the national chair for playwriting at the Kennedy Center. He is also a professor at New York University, a well-regarded playwright, and the author of several books, including Take Ten.
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The Kentucky Cycle
by Robert Schenkkan
Paperback
Multi-generational family saga about a state and nation forged in violence and ambition. First play to win the Pulitzer Prize prior to its New York production.
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Kimberly Akimbo
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Paperback
Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire's "Kimberly Akimbo" focuses, with uncanny depth and quirky wit, on a sixteen-year-old girl suffering from a disease that causes her body to age nearly five times faster than it should.
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King Hedley II
by August Wilson
Hardcover
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La Bete and Wrong Mountain: Two Plays by David Hirson
by David Hirson
Paperback
David Hirson's La Bete and Wrong Mountain are widely regarded as two of the most controversial and original American plays produced on Broadway in the past decade. Critics have compared Hirson, who is known as a rebel, to Joe Orton, Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, Charles Ludlam, Maxwell Anderson, and even Prokofiev. Written in rhyming iambic-pentameter couplets, La Bete recounts the arrival of a vulgar street performer, Valere, into an elite company of veteran actors. The battles between Elomire, the troupe's leader, and Valere provides the basis for an antic comedy questioning the divide between art and entertainment. Popular acclaim eludes Wrong Mountain's protagonist, Henry Dennett, an aging poet, until he makes a bet with a successful playwright, Guy Halperin, that he can write a play and have it produced. Dennett triumphs, but he is left wondering whether he has spent his entire life climbing the "wrong mountain."
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Ladybird
by Vassily Sigarev, Sasha Dugdale (Translator)
Paperback
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Las Meninas
by Lynn Nottage
Paperback
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Lake Hollywood
by John Guare
Paperback
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The Laramie Project
by Moises Kaufman
Paperback
Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project have written a play documenting the aftermath of the savage killing of Matthew Shepard, including the perspectives of both friends and strangers: The Laramie Project. This innovative theatrical composition, structured not in scenes, but in "moments," addresses the various issues relating to the tragedy of Shepard, a young gay man whose murder has since become a symbol for America's struggle against intolerance. Kaufman's approach is actor-based, as opposed to text-based; a side-effect of this actor-based approach is that in print form it seems as though something is missing. However, the play promises to move the reader with its authentic portrayal of a small town facing a terrifying event.
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play
by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Introduction)
Paperback
Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo
by Alfred Uhry
Paperback
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The Last of the Thorntons
by Horton Foote
Paperback
Horton Foote, preeminent American dramatist, has had a career spanning more than fifty years. His latest play tells the story of Alberta Thornton, the last surviving member of the powerful Thornton clan of Harrison, Texas. As she confronts the end of her life, Alberta shares an entertaining and touching lifetime of memories, including both pride and misgivings about her family's legacy, as she struggles to let go of unrealized dreams and a lost way of life.
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Last Romantics
by Michael Lewis Maclennan
Paperback
Ranging from the drawing rooms of fin-de-siecle London with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, to Canada on the eve of the Great Depression, Last Romantics is a witty and heartfelt elegy to beauty, love, and sacrifice. The play chronicles the staggering triumphs and losses of the now-forgotten brilliant artistic duo Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon.
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The Last Yankee: With a New Essay About Theatre Language
by Arthur Miller
Paperback, 98 pages
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The Late Henry Moss / Eyes for Consuela / When the World Was Green: Three Plays by Sam Shepard
by Sam Shepard
Paperback
These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence. In The Late Henry Moss –- which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte -– two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken fishing expedition that preceded their father's death. In Eyes for Consuela, based on Octavio Paz's classic story "The Blue Bouquet,” a vacationing American encounters a knife-toting Mexican bandit on a gruesome quest. And in When the World Was Green, cowritten with Joseph Chaikin, a journalist in search of her father interviews an old man who resolved a generations-old vendetta by murdering the wrong man. Together, these plays form a powerful trio from an enduring force in American theater.
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Later Life and Two Other Plays: The Snow Ball and the Old Boy
by A. R. Gurney
Paperback, 288 pages
From the Chekhov of the Ivy League, author of "The Dining Room" and "Love Letters".
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The Leisure Society
by Francois Archambault, Bobby Theodore (Translator)
Paperback
"A vicious, erotically charged spectacle full of cynical disdain and gripping pathos." - Montreal Gazette
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Letters from Cuba and Other Plays
by Maria Irene Fornes
Paperback
Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time and place and spirit, linking a young dancer and her relatives in Cuba. Also includes Terra Incognita and Manual for a Desperate Crossing.
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Letters in Wartime
by Kenneth Brown, Stephen Scriver
Paperback
During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
by Martin McDonagh
Paperback
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Life X 3
by Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton
Paperback
From the celebrated writer of Art, a scathingly hilarious commentary on vanity, professional insecurity, and the vicissitudes of marriage. Life X 3 presents three versions of two couples (and an offstage six-year-old) trying to make a success of one evening despite the fact that they neither like nor respect one another.
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Life After George
by Hannie Rayson
Paperback
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The Light in the Piazza
by Craig Lucas, Adam Guettel
Paperback
"The Light in the Piazza beautifully captures the eternal allure of Italy... The story wraps itself around your heart."-Chicago Sun-Times "Guettel's music and lyrics take nothing from the razzle-dazzle bargain basement of feeling; they represent, instead, a genuine expense of spirit... The Light in the Piazza doesn't want to make theatre-goers feel good; it wants to make them feel deeply." -The New Yorker
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Lips Together, Teeth Apart
by Terrence McNally
Paperback
As two couples spend the 4th of July in a house left to one of the women by her brother, a victim of AIDS, they mask their fear with desperate wit and hide inside uncomfortable marriages--each character struggling to come to terms with a world of anxious isolation haunted by ever-present death. A powerful play the author of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" and "Master Class".
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Little Fish
by Michael John Lachiusa
Paperback
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Living Out
by Lisa Loomer
Paperback
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Lobby Hero
by Kenneth Lonergan
Paperback
With his acclaimed plays This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery and his Oscar-nominated film You Can Count on Me, Kenneth Lonergan has been called "the new golden boy of stage and screen" by The New York Times. Now he returns to the stage with Lobby Hero, which has been praised as "smart, funny ... [a] drama that derives its strength from Lonergan's keen ear for dialogue. One powerful tale" (New York Daily News).
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The Long Christmas Ride Home
by Paula Vogel
Paperback
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Love and Human Remains / Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
by Brad Fraser
Paperback
The screenplay, and the play upon which it's based, in one volume.
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Love! Valour! Compassion! and a Perfect Ganesh: Two Plays
by Terrence McNally
Paperback
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Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets
by William Finn, John Guare (Introduction), Eric Bogosian, Marsha Norman, et al.
Paperback
The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines seven of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one-act plays by seven of the best playwrights in America. These short gems, paired with the sonnets that inspired them, are published here for the first time.
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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
by Tennessee Williams
Paperback, 82 pages
From the jacket: "On a warm June morning in St. Louis in the mid-thirties, Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams's most engaging 'marginally youthful,' forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics - the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony."
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Luna Park: Short Plays and Monologues
by Donald Margulies
Paperback
A new collection featuring the short plays, one acts and monologues by Donald Margulies. This volume spans almost 20 years of his writings beginning with Luna Park, an early play inspired by Delmore Schwartz, and also includes his well-known one act July 4, 1994, which is a hauntingly beautiful examination of a female inner city doctor's life.
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Lydie Breeze: Bullfinch's Mythology / The Sacredness of the Next Task
by John Guare
Paperback
An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism. The result is an almost surreal saga of American life, with allegorical meditations on the contradictions and interconnectedness of all things and the chaotic nature of the universe.
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M.A.D
by David Eldridge
Paperback
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Mad Forest: A Play from Romania
by Caryl Churchill
Paperback
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Madame Melville and the General from America
by Richard Nelson
Paperback
Long an associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, American playwright Richard Nelson has been praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been awarded the Olivier Award for his play Goodnight Children Everywhere and a Tony Award for his adaptation of James Joyce's "The Dead." Included in this volume are his latest play, Madame Melville, which received rave reviews during its London run starring Macaulay Culkin and Irene Jacob, and The General from America, which ponders the emotional conflicts that Benedict Arnold faced before deciding to hand over George Washington to the British. Madame Melville, set in Paris in 1966, before that city exploded in protest, presents the story of a fifteen-year-old American, Carl, and his beautiful teacher, Claudie Melville. The Daily Telegraph praised Madame Melville as "a play about art, music, friendship and the irrecoverable, unforgettable moment when an adolescent realizes that the world is full of wonder." The General from Ame
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The Madness of George III
by Alan Bennett
Paperback, 94 pages
Pageantry and madness are comically intermingled in this curiously sunny bio of the king most famous for "losing" America. Bennett provides George the cure he never enjoyed in real life, and builds his script around the King's touching and dignified love affair with, of all people, his wife.
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Making Progress: America's Queer History in 12 Plays
by Michael D. Jackson
Paperback
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The Mammary Plays: Two Plays
by Paula Vogel
Paperback
Including "How I Learned to Drive"
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Man from Nebraska
by Tracy Letts
Paperback
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Marina Carr Plays 1: Low in the Dark / the Mai / Portia Coughlan / By the Bog of Cats
by Marina Carr
Paperback
Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new playwright. Carr, known for her darkly comic, often surreal examination of family and relationships, has been praised for the beauty and uniqueness of her language. A prominent voice in British letters, she has been building momentum in the United States for the past decade along with Conor McPherson and Martin McDonagh as part of the Irish theater invasion.
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Marion Bridge
by Daniel MacIvor
Paperback
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Mark Ravenhill Plays One: Shopping and Fucking / Faust Is Dead / Handbag / Some Explicit Polaroids
by Mark Ravenhill
Paperback
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Martin Crimp Plays One: Dealing With Clair / Getting Attention / Play With Repeats / The Treatment
by Martin Crimp
Paperback
Martin Crimp, among the most successful British playwrights and translators of his generation, demonstrates a powerful modern sensibility and control of language that The Sunday Times calls "harsh, elegant and sardonic . . . as if Evelyn Waugh and Bret Easton Ellis had collaborated on a horrifying morality play."
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Marvin's Room
by Scott McPherson
Paperback, 89 pages
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Mary's Wedding
by Stephen Massicotte
Paperback
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Matt & Ben
by Mindy Kaling, Brenda Withers
Paperback
It's the story Hollywood has glamorized, publicized, and bombarded us with -- how it all began for the two young men, now famous for their on-again-off-again romances and their big-budget smashes and flops.It Started with a script for Good Will Hunting , slaved over by the bright young dreamers (portrayed in this play's premiere by the female playwrights) in their run-down apartment in 1996. Or was it? This hilarious, scathing play takes us back to the pivotal moment when the finished script that would change their lives...fell from the ceiling while they were working on something else. The laughs come at a manic pace in this delightfully venomous play that has taken off Broadway by storm.
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The Memory of Water and Five Kinds of Silence
by Shelagh Stephenson
Paperback
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Midlife
by Eugene Stickland
Hardcover
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Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays: The Red Priest and the Blue Light
by Mieko Ouchi
Paperback
Includes The Red Priest and Mieko Ouchi's new play, The Blue Light, in which Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred-years-old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. A thought-provoking contemplation on art, politics, and the seduction of fascism.
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Misadventure: Monologues and Short Pieces
by Donald Margulies
Paperback
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Miss Witherspoon
by Christopher Durang
Paperback
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Modern Jewish Plays
by Jason Sherman (Editor)
Paperback
Includes Masada by Arthur Milner, The Murder of Isaac by Motti Lerner, The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret by Jonathan Garfinkel, Hand in Hand by Simon Block, Shooting Magda (The Palestinian Girl) by Joshua Sobol, and Reading Hebron by Jason Sherman.
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Mojo
by Jez Butterworth
Paperback
This rude comedy provided one of the most brilliant debuts of a new British playwright in the 1990s. Jez Butterworth seizes his place as latest and possibly brashest of the "word-jockey" playwrights--folks like David Mamet and Eric Overmyer who use slang and standard English language with olympic virtuosity. This brutally comic tale drags audiences by the ear through the chaotic backstages of British rock in the pre-Beatles late 1950s. The dialogue is muscular, shocking, and constantly surprising.
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Molly Sweeney
by Brian Friel
Paperback
Some of Friel's most beautiful writing.
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Monologues from the Plays of Christopher Durang
by Eric Kraus (Editor), Christopher Durang
Hardcover
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Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl
by Marty Chan
Paperback
A Chinese son must tell his parents that he's moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes, in a B movie called "Wrath of the Yellow Claw." The Globe and Mail wrote, "At its heart, Marty Chan's fast-paced comedy is a blend of a couple of old stories: culture clash and generational conflict."
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Moonlight: A Play
by Harold Pinter
Paperback
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The Moonlight Room
by Tristine Skyler
Paperback
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More Instant Applause
by Playwrights Canada Press
Paperback
Twenty-six complete plays lasting no longer than ten to fifteen minutes each. An anthology of first class writing, easily adaptable for a number of your theatrical needs and experiences. Whether reading for pleasure, for the classroom, or looking for the perfect short piece to do as a staged production, this anthology can accommodate all your short play needs.
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Morning, Noon, and Night
by Spalding Gray
Hardcover
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The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
by Paul Rudnick
Paperback
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Motortown
by Simon Stephens
Paperback
Danny returns from Basra in Iraq to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun, and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front. Written during the London bombings of 2005, this work is a response to the antiwar movement-and to the war itself.
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Mouth to Mouth
by Kevin Elyot
Paperback
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Mr. Peter's Connections
by Arthur Miller
Paperback
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Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
by Christopher Durang
Paperback
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Mrs. Klein
by Nicholas Wright
Paperback
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Mrs. Pat
by Pam Gems
Paperback
At the turn of the century, Mrs. Patrick Campbell was England's most celebrated and notorious actress. An acclaimed beauty, loved by many, she is remembered for her wit, for bad behavior, and her close friendship with George Bernard Shaw. This new play is about the art of acting and the turmoil of being a woman who was meant to please but couldn't resist using her mind.
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Mummified Deer And Other Plays
by Luis Valdez
Paperback
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Murmuring Judges
by David Hare
Revised
Paperback
Hare's dissection of the judiciary, another in his trio of plays about contemporary British institutions (see also "The Absence of War" and "Racing Demon".)
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My Friend Hitler
by Yukio Mishima, Hiroaki Sato (Translator)
Paperback
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be situated far below that of novels. It seems to be in a place which is more instinctive, closer to child's play." For English readers, these plays have been one of Japan's best-kept secrets - until now.
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My Zinc Bed
by David Hare
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A darkly comic look at love and addiction by the author of Amy's View. When struggling poet, reformed alcoholic, and devout Alcoholics Anonymous adherent Paul Peplow interviews the wildly successful, reclusive, and notoriously prickly entrepreneur Victor Quinn, he is in no way prepared for what is to follow.
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Natural Breaks & Rhythms
by Julius Ayodeji
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Beats and Cold, two ambitious DJs, are gaining reputation in the music industry. They have found a new sound-jungle-and it's going to be massive! At first the chemistry between them produces gold. But as Beats turns into a producer, and Cold fights for the space to be a true artist, the tension builds beat by beat. Julius Ayodeji is a Lecturer in Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University. Formerly he was a freelance film-maker. Julius's credits include: The Bath; Lift, part of BBC Radio's 'Brief Encounters' series and The Times Grow Worthy of Our Voice. He has been chosen as one of fifty writers nationwide to take part in 'The 50'.
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Neat
by Charlayne Woodard
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This one-woman performance piece offers a sensitive portrait of a black girl growing up in a Northern city during the 1950s. She attends every Bat Mitzvah and starts learning Hebrew before she begins searching for her own African roots, is caught up in a high school "race riot," and is singled out by the bad-boy Romeo. But, most importantly, we see her interacting with a retarded aunt, first as a young child delighted with this taller playmate, then as a teenager whose whole status in the world seems threatened when Neat comes to live with her family.
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Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War
by Eve Ensler
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New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: 1999-2001
by Christopher Fitz-Simon (Introduction), Sanford V. Sternlicht (Editor), Judy Friel (Editor)
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New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2006
by D. L. Lepidus (Editor)
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Nick Ward Plays One: The Present / Apart from George / The Strangeness of Others / Trouble Sleeping
by Nick Ward
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Night Train to Bolina
by Nilo Cruz
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Not About Nightingales
by Tennessee Williams
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Never produced and unknown except to scholars, Not About Nightingales remained in library files until brought to the attention of Vanessa Redgrave who scheduled its World Premiere at the Royal National Theatre in London in March of 1998. "This is one of the most remarkable theatrical discoveries of the last quarter century." The Evening Standard
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The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull
by Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale, Anton Chekhov
Hardcover
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Novio Boy: A Play
by Gary Soto
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Lighthearted story about the awkwardness and excitement of young love in a Mexican American community.
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Now You Know
by Michael Frayn
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From the author of the acclaimed novel The Trick of It and the creator of the stage/screen hit Noises Off comes the hilarious story of an unscrupulous, womanizing London politician who meets his match in the person of a woman who despises everything he stands for.
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O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance
by Holly Hughes, David Roman
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Gay men and lesbians have always taken front and center stage in the theater. From Shakespeare's cross-dressing love interests to Oscar Wilde's witty comedies of mismanners to Eva Le Gallienne and Mary Martin's portrayals of the androgynous Peter Pan, homosexuality and gender blending have found many manifestation in theater. In the mid-1980s, as the New York performance-art scene began to flourish, scores of queer artists launched careers in tiny storefronts, church basements, and empty lofts. By breaking down traditional ideas of "acting," and by being unafraid of dealing with queer sexual content, they changed the style, form, and substance of alternative and mainstream theater. O Solo Homo is a collection of scripts and texts by the most important of these performers. Some of the material is overtly sexual, as in Tim Miller's "Naked Breath" or Holly Hughes's slyly titled "Clit Notes." But the performers are often as interested in politics and culture as in sex. The late Ron Vawter's exploration of art, betrayal, and the cult of personality in "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith" is brilliant, and Peggy Shaw's treatise on what it means to be butch in a world that celebrates manliness in "You're Just Like My Father" is both deeply shocking and hilarious.
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The Old Neighborhood: Three Plays
by David Mamet
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Odd Jobs
by Frank Moher
Paperback/Acting Edition
An internationally acclaimed drama about people working -- and working things out. Young and unemployed, Tim bides his time doing yard work for a brilliant, retired professor of mathematics, whose mind has begun to betray her. When Tim's wife is offered a job in another city, all three must reconcile their need for meaningful work with their need for one another. The Los Angeles Times: "Penetrating . . . a small, tightly woven work, whose title doesn't begin to suggest the mathematical equation that connects its three characters." The Washington Times: "Only odd in the unexpected riches it contains. And Frank Moher is a name to get to know, eh?"
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The Odyssey: A Play
by Mary Zimmerman
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On the Shore of the Wide World
by Simon Stephens
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Set over the course of nine months, On the Shore of the Wide World is an epic play about love, family, Roy Keane, and the size of the galaxy. Simon Stephens has been the recipient of both the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2001â€"2002 and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2005. His plays include Bluebird, Herons (nominated for the Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright), Port, One Minute, Christmas, and Country Music. He is currently resident dramatist at the Royal National Theatre in London.
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Our Lady of 121st Street
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
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"Guirgis has a hilarious, sympathetic, terrific ear . . . he heightens the rhythms of the street until there is a brilliant, buoyant cacophony." -Donald Lyons, New York Post
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Our Lady of Sligo
by Sebastian Barry
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Our Late Night and a Thought in Three Parts: Two Plays
by Wallace Shawn
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Out in the Open
by Jonathan Harvey
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An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
by Martha Cheung, Jane Lai
Hardcover
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Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion
by Stephen Massicotte
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Oxygen
by Carl Djerassi, Roald Hoffmann
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What motivates a scientist? One key factor is the pressure from the competition to be the first to discover something new. The moral consequences of this are the subject of the play "Oxygen," dealing with the discovery of this all-important element.
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Pale Horse
by Joe Penhall
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The Paris Letter
by Jon Robin Baitz
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Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
by Israel Horovitz
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Party Time and the New World Order: Two Plays
by Harold Pinter
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Passion
by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Iginio Ugo Fosca Tarchetti
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From Booklist: Passion is -- even for Stephen Sondheim -- a remarkable musical, a brooding meditation on love and passion that is at once simple and deeply moving. In it, Sondheim, often criticized for being cerebral, proves he can write a show's worth of lush, emotionally honest songs. Moreover, a close reading of Lapine's book reveals how much his work contributes to the show's power. Based on Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola's Passione d'Amore (1981) and its source, the novel Fosca (1869) by I. U. Tarchetti, Lapine's book has a polished singleness of purpose rare in musical theater.
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Patient A and Other Plays: Five Plays: Two Rooms / Down the Road / Fortinbras / Lake Street Extension / Patient A
by Lee Blessing
Paperback, 235 pages
From the author of "A Walk in the Woods".
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Patrick Marber Plays 1: Closer / Dealer's Choice / After Miss Julie
by Patrick Marber
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Paul
by Howard Brenton
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The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul - was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to him. Jesus did not die on the cross but was rescued and sheltered by James, Peter, and Mary Magdalene. But they prefer to keep Paul in the dark. Now imprisoned by Nero, Peter finally tells Paul the truth before their deaths.
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Penhall Plays 1
by Joe Penhall
Some Voices: 'The most thrilling playwriting debut in years. . . The writing is razor-sharp, sensitive, quietly eloquent, full of the touchingly drab poetry of lost lives' (Sunday Times); Pale Horse: 'His second Court play is as compelling and extraordinary as his first . . . as taut, tight and atmospheric as Macbeth' (Observer); Love and Understanding: 'This is one of the best plays I've seen, ever, at this powerhouse of new writing . . . tough, eloquent, bruising' (Sunday Times); The Bullet: 'A Death of a Salesman for Britain in the nineties, and it is typical of Penhall's grace as a writer that it consciously echoes Arthur Miller while also emerging as an entirely distinctive work' (Daily Telegraph).
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Perfect Pie
by Judith Thompson
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Perfect Strangers
by Stephen Poliakoff
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Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays
by Sky Gilbert (Editor)
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Includes The Convergence of Luke by Harry Rintoul, Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer by Shawn Postoff, Getting Lucky by Christian Lloyd, Cancun by Greg Kearney, The Rise and Fall of Peter Galveston by Greg MacArthur, The Bathhouse Suite by Ken Brand, and Nazi/Jew/Queer by Michael Achtman.
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The Perfectionist and Other Plays
by Joyce Carol Oates
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The Permanent Way
by David Hare
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"David Hare's brilliant docudrama about the state of Britain's railways . . . provides a gripping account of what has gone wrong since privatization . . . [The Permanent Way] captures the greedy, shoddy spirit of our times with devastating clarity, but its portrait of individuals, particularly the survivors of rail crashes and those left bereaved by them, is . . . deeply moving." -- Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph (London)
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Peter Barnes: Plays 3: Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie / Heaven's Blessings / Revolutionary Witness
by Peter Barnes
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Phaedra's Love
by Sarah Kane
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Piano/Forte
by Terry Johnson
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Piano/Forte is a bold new comedy following the events on the eve of Clifford's wedding to the glamorous Dawn, when his plans for a joyous celebration are thrown into turmoil by the return home of his estranged daughter Louise. Her plans to exact revenge prove to have explosive consequences. Terry Johnson is an award-winning playwright whose previous plays have included Hitchcock Blonde, Hysteria and Insignificance. His other works include adaptations of The Graduate and Dead Funny.
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
by Steve Martin
Hardcover
Synopsis: America's most innovative TV and film celebrity achieves critical and popular acclaim as a playwright. An imagined meeting of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904--when both men were in their twenties--Picasso at the Lapin Agile presents a compelling examination of science and art and their impact on a rapidly changing society. This collection also includes three dark and surreal one-acts: WASP, The Zig-Zag, and Patter for a Floating Lady.
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The Pillowman
by Martin McDonagh
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While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has filled houses in New York and London, been showered with the theatre world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his latest drama, The Pillowman, is the viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders occurring in his town.
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The Play About the Baby
by Edward Albee
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Ben Brantley, The New York Times: "Funny, harrowing dramatic fable ... as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver."
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Playing With Fire
by David Edgar
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What begins as a metro-versus-retro comedy of misunderstanding soon becomes a chilling drama about multicultural Britain. Racial tensions soar and good intentions have fatal consequences.
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The Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature
by Josefina Niggli (Editor), William Orchard (Editor)
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Josefina Niggli (1910–1983) was one of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early twentieth century. Born of European parents and raised in Mexico, she spent most of her adult life in the United States, and in her plays and novels she aimed to portray authentic Mexican experiences for English-speaking audiences. Niggli crossed borders, cultures, and genres, and her life and work prompt interesting questions about race, class, gender, modernity, ethnic and national identity, and the formation of literary canons.
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Plays One
by Pam Gems
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Plays and Playwrights 2007
by Martin Denton (Editor)
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Plays and Playwrights 2007 is the eighth volume in our annual anthology of plays recently produced in New York City by emerging playwrights. Martin Denton is the editor of this and all the previous anthologies published by The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. He is the founder and chief executive of this nonprofit corporation, In addition, he is the editor of the popular theatre website, nytheatre.com.
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Plays by Tony Kushner
by Tony Kushner
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From the author of "Angels in America".
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Playwrights of Exile: An International Anthology
by Francoise Kourilsky (Editor), Stephen J. Vogel (Translator), Richard Miller (Translator)
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A collection of five plays from writers in exile from their countries of origin; all were originally written in French and are translated here into English.
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Play Yourself
by Harry Kondoleon
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Playz From the Boom Box Galaxy: An Anthology from the Hip Hop Generation
by Robert Alexander (Editor), Kim Euell (Editor)
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Playz from the Boom Box Galaxy collects works by many of the most exciting and influential hip-hop theater artists performing today. Robert Alexander is the author of 23 plays, including I Ain't Yo' Uncle, and is the co-editor of The Fire This Time anthology. Kim Euell is a well-known dramaturg who has worked at many theaters across the country on the development of new plays.
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Polish Joke and Other Plays
by David Ives
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This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All in the Timing: Polish Joke, a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes; Don Juan in Chicago, in which a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil, only to become a reluctant Latin lover; Ancient History, a comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love; and The Red Address, the searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.
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The Plum Tree
by Mitch Miyagawa
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"[Japanese-Canadian internment] is still a painful and shameful subject for many people. But playwright Mitch Miyagawa revisits these issues with compassion in his eloquently written play...a few scenes are devastating, but The Plum Tree is ultimately a very hopeful and inspiring story."-The Calgary Sun
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Polygraph
by Robert Lepage, Marie Brassard, Gyllian Raby (Translator)
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A play involving three off-beat characters - a criminologist, an actress and a gay waiter. Previously unacquainted, their paths intersect as they work to unravel the mystery of a murdered woman. This is the first play to be published in English by French-Canadian director Robert Lepage.
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Pool (No Water) & Citizenship
by Mark Ravenhill
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Pool (No Water) is a shocking play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people.
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Poor Super Man: A Play With Captions
by Brad Fraser
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Fraser's "spiritual sequel" to his play "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love."
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Port Authority
by Conor McPherson
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Portia Coughlan
by Marina Carr
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Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead
by Eric Bogosian
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Booklist: Introducing the published version of his latest solo show, Bogosian laments that, thanks to TV, "we float in a matrix of billions of image fragments, sound bites, plot-line, news reports and ad copy." Pounding Nails (which opened last February) is his new attempt to make sense of this flotsam. As in his previous one-man shows, Bogosian presents a series of unconnected monologues--some comic, some satiric, some poignant--delivered by various oddball denizens of his fertile, feral brain.
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Prairie Report
by Frank Moher
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Pretty Fire
by Charlayne Woodard
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Winner of the Los Angeles Critics Circle Award, Pretty Fire consists of five autobiographical vignettes that begin with Woodard's premature birth and end with her first solo performance in her church's junior choir, the event that set her career as a performer in motion.
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Pride's Crossing
by Tina Howe
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From Booklist, October 15, 1998: Howe has always been a graceful playwright, adept at dialogue and capable of finding the drama in even the most mundane moments. But rarely has her previous work exhibited the emotional depth and power she displays in "Pride's Crossing." The play is a double portrait of 90-year-old Mabel Tiding Bigelow -- the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France (the harder way to swim the channel), who now lives, alone and feisty, in the house in which she grew up -- and of the upper-class.
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Primo Time
by Antony Sher
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Anthony Sher's enthralling account of the struggle-and the triumph of bringing Primo Levi's Auschwitz memoir to the stage. Sher tells how he first came across Levi's book, of how he conceived the notion of adapting it, of the long-drawn-out negotiations, research trips to Auschwitz and of the struggle to stage his adaptation and remain true to Levi's precepts.
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The Prisoner's Dilemma
by David Edgar
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Starting with international peace brokers playing simulation games on a univeristy campus, David Edgar's intensely politcal new play spirals upwards and outward to present a situation of real conflict over bloodily unresolvable life-and-death issues.
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Provenance
by Ronnie Burkett
Paperback
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Prymate
by Mark Medoff
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Popcorn
by Ben Elton
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Purple Heart and The Infidel: Two Plays
by Bruce Norris
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In Purple Heart, Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother. One day a stranger arrives at the door, a soldier with one hand who is seemingly connected to her late husband and comes to offer condolences to the grieving family. The soldier's mysterious visit is solved in graphic and bloody detail at the end of the play. Loosely based on a true story, The Infidel tells of a charismatic and well-respected state Supreme Court justice who is faced with disciplinary action after his out-of-control affair with a young Latina junior staffer. He confers with his friend and attorney as he examines the consequences of his behavior and tries to judge the most difficult case of his life-his own.
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QED: A Play
by Peter Parnell, Richard Phillips Feynman
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With a moving and powerful introduction from Alan Alda. Who knew that quantum electrodynamics could make for a dramatic read? In the hands of the late, great physicist Richard Feynman, it does. Feynman's theory of QED is just one of the many topics the playwright Peter Parnell explores in this nearly-one-man show, a recent Broadway triumph for star Alda as Feynman.
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A Question of Mercy: A Play
by David Rabe (Based on an essay by Richard Selzer)
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Rabe's fine, powerful drama about a doctor who agrees to assist an AIDS sufferer's suicide.
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Quills and Other Plays
by Doug Wright
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Gathered here are three of Wright's early plays, including Interrogating the Nude, a tongue-in-cheek reimagining of the uproar surrounding the debut of Marcel Duchamp's work in America; Watbanaland, a satiric dissection of yuppie desire and a haunting look at family and faith; and the Obie Award-winning Quills, which explores the boundaries of artistic expression and the dangers of censorship as they played out in the Marquis de Sade's final days at Charenton Asylum.
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Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
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A story of loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness-told through daily moments and emotional hurdles-as a family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old. With a critically acclaimed Broadway premiere, featuring Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly, Rabbit Hole has been hailed as an artistic breakthrough for the highly regarded David Lindsay-Abaire. A drama of what comes after tragedy, it captures "the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faced with an unthinkable situation-and eventually, their capacity for survival." (USA Today).
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Racing Demon
by David Hare
Reprint Edition
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Number 3 in Hare's troika is about the Church of England, and by many accounts the most powerful. (See also " The Absence of War" and "Murmuring Judges".)
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Radio Golf
by August Wilson
Hardcover
Radio Golf is August Wilson's final play. Set in 1990 Pittsburgh, it is the conclusion of his Century Cycle-Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the African American experience throughout the twentieth century-and is the last play he completed before his death. With Radio Golf Wilson's lifework comes full circle as Aunt Ester's onetime home at 1839 Wylie Avenue (the setting of the cycle's first play) is slated for demolition to make way for a slick new real estate venture aimed to boost both the depressed Hill District and Harmond Wilks' chance of becoming the city's first black mayor.
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Rain Dance
by Lanford Wilson
Paperback
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Raised in Captivity
by Nicky Silver
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Breakthrough comedy by the playwright some are calling a neo-Noel Coward.
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Reading the Apocalypse in Bed: Six Radical Plays
by Tadeusz Rozewicz
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Red Light Winter
by Adam Rapp
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The Red Priest: Eight Ways to Say Goodbye
by Mieko Ouchi
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This bittersweet love story features enchanting music, a mysterious countess, Antonio Vivaldi, and a violin. The Red Priest is a poignant variation on the themes of love and freedom by one of Alberta's most exceptional young artists.
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Redwood Curtain: A Play
by Lanford Wilson
Hardcover
A Vietnam vet hermitting in the woods of northern California finds the past has a way of tracking you down. A masterful play.
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Refuge
by Jessica Goldberg
Paperback
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Rent
by Jonathan Larson, Evelyn McDonnell, Kathy Silberger, Larry Fink (Photographer)
Hardcover
Amazon.com review: This is by far the must-get theater book of the year. With dazzling punk graphics that will quickly win book industry awards, the volume contains the entire libretto of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical about love and loyalty among starving AIDS-stricken artists in New York's East Village. But editors Evelyn McDonnell and Katherine Silberger wisely understand that the story of the show's creation is as compelling as the musical itself -- so more than half of this volume is devoted to an oral history of the composer/lyricist/librettist Jonathan Larson.
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Reporter
by Nicholas Wright
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An enthralling detective story based on the true life story of BBC reporter James Mossman during his last years, from 1963 to 1971. The Reporter searches for the truth behind his bewildering suicide. What lies beneath the surface? Or is the surface ultimately all there is?
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Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains It All
by Tim Fountain
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A new edition of the "Tour-de force" (Time Out) based on the life of Quentin Crisp. "The great majority of this absorbing monologue consists of Crisp's own words...wisely Fountain doesn't attempt any trudge through the life story...Instead, Crisp treats us to his views on television, oral sex, the nature of style and the secret of happiness" -- Daily Telegraph
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Restoration
by Edward Bond
Paperback
A new edition with program notes of Edward Bond's play set in eighteenth-century England, published to tie in with the tour by Oxford Stage Company.
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Resurrection Blues
by Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today? An allegory that asserts the interconnectedness of our actions and each person's culpability in world events, Resurrection Blues is a comedic and tragic satire of precarious morals in our media-saturated age.
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The Retreat from Moscow: A Play About a Family
by William Nicholson
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In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again. "The best new play in twenty years . . . This perfectly written masterwork shimmers with delicacy and precision.” --The Journal News
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Return to the Caffe Cino
by Steve Susoyev (Editor), George Birimisa (Editor)
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An anthology of over twenty off-off-Broadway plays originally produced at the legendary Greenwich Village coffeehouse during the 1960s. In place of a traditional introduction, readers will find memoir-style essays by such pioneers as Edward Albee, Robert Patrick and Phoebe Wray, plus over fifty archival photographs.
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Revelers
by Beth Henley
Paperback
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Reves
by Wajdi Mouawad, Linda Gaboriau (Translator)
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Rice Boy
by Sunil Kuruvilla
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In front of a house in India, sixteen-year-old Tina learns the ancient arts of kolam, the creation of elaborate patterns with rice powder, from her great-grandmother, in preparation for her marriage to a man she has never met. Meanwhile, in front of a house in Canada, Tina's cousin, Tommy, sits in a tree, trying to make sense of his heritage.
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The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
by Arthur Miller
Hardcover
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Right Brain Vacation Photos: New Plays and Production Photographs from the Omaha Magic Theatre 1972 - 1992
by Jo Ann Schmidman, Sora Kimberlain, Megan Terry
Paperback
Plays from one of America's most influential and daring theatres.
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
by Jim Cartwright
Paperback
Sometimes talent isn't enough -- it's too much, as the singing heroine of this musical dramedy discovers.
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Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
by Tom Stoppard
Paperback
Rock 'n' Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan's volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.
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Rodney's Wife
by Richard Nelson
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A new work by leading American playwright Richard Nelson, who for more than 25 years has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living. In Rodney's Wife, a fading American actor in Rome for the filming of a 1960s spaghetti Western gathers with family and friends at a rented villa. Over the course of one booze-soaked summer night, jealousies and secrets are revealed that crumble the foundations of their relationships. Inspired by Euripides, the play is a tragedy of exiles who continue to need each other, even as they push away.
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Romance
by David Mamet
Paperback
Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright David Mamet's Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.
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Romania After 2000: Five New Romanian Plays
by Saviana Stanescu (Editor), Daniel Charles Gerould (Editor)
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The first anthology of new Romanian Drama published in the United States, Romania after 2000 introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. Includes Stop the Tempo, Romania. Kiss Me, Vitamins, Romania 21, and Waxing West.
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Ronald Harwood Plays Two: Taking Sides / Poison Pen / Tramway Road / The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold / After the Lions and the Guests
by Ronald Harwood
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The Ruby Sunrise
by Rinne Groff
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Running Dog, Paper Tiger
by Simon Johnston
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