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The Sadness of Einstein and Other Plays
by Charles Deemer
Paperback
Two students track down Einstein at the Solvay Conference in 1927 in order to tell him The Oregon Interpretation of the new quantum physics. Plus The Death Cycle, three one-act plays about death.
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Safar, Gulp & Happiness: New Welsh Drama
by
Afshan Malik, Lewis Davies, Jeff Teare
Paperback
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Saint Frances of Hollywood
by Sally Clark
Paperback
Theatrically electric telling of the tragic Frances Farmer story.
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Santaland Diaries & Seasons Greetings: 2 Plays
by David Sedaris
Paperback
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Sarah Daniels Plays Two: The Gut Girls / Beside Herself / Head-Rot Holiday / The Madness of Esme and Shaz
by Sarah Daniels
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Sarah Kane: Complete Plays
by Sarah Kane
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St. Nicholas and the Weir: Two Plays
by Conor McPherson
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Saved or Destroyed
by Harry Kondoleon
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Scenes from the Big Picture
by Owen McCafferty
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Takes place over the course of a hot summer's day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over twenty inhabitants of the district as their stories interweave and collide. In a tour de force of dramatic writing, a whole world is evoked in a couple of hours.
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Scorched: Incendies
by Wajdi Mouawad
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Twin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story-witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere.
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The Seafarer
by Conor McPherson
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It is Christmas Eve, and James "Sharky" Harkin, erstwhile fisherman/van driver/chauffeur, gathers with friends at the dingy flat he shares with his blind brother to drink booze and play cards. As Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day, the familiar-looking stranger Mr. Lockhart reminds Sharky of the bargain he made when they last met in prison-and Sharky suddenly finds himself playing a game with the stakes set at his soul. With this magnificently atmospheric new play, McPherson is once again set to entrance his audience, this time with a new take on the Faustian theme. Conor McPherson was born in Dublin, where he still lives. His plays include This Lime Tree Bower, St. Nicholas, The Weir, Port Authority, Dublin Carol, and Shining City, which premiered on Broadway in spring 2006. One of Ireland's leading playwrights, his work has been produced throughout the United Kingdom and the United States.
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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays
by Carolyn Gage
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The Secret Garden: Musical Book and Lyrics
by Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hardcover
Playwright Norman's libretto is one of the most sophisticated and elegant in contemporary musical theatre.
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The Secret Rapture
by David Hare
Paperback
In this superb drama set in Thatcher's England, Hare first explores the questions that have come to dominate his work (most recently in "Skylight"): how does one lead a good life, and what is the cost?
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Seduction of Almighty God
by Howard Barker
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The loss of faith and cynical corruption of a few priests is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied and passionate belief in God. Howard Barker invents a world of shocking and universal metaphor in a place that might be anywhere struggling with the rise of extreme belief and the dangerous, distorted power it unleashes.
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See What I Wanna See
by Michael John Lachiusa
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Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents
by Arthur Laurents
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Seven Guitars
by August Wilson
Hardcover
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Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays
by
Mimi D'Aponte
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
by Eric Bogosian
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Shakespeare's Will
by Vern Thiessen
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Thiessen's latest work provides voice to one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare. The play sheds light on an unexplored aspect of Shakespeare's life by looking through the eyes and heart of the woman who spent a lifetime with-and without-the great poet. This work is the celebration of a life unbowed by tragedy and unapologetic in the face of public scorn.
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Shanghai Moon: A Comic Melodrama
by Charles Busch
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Shape of a Girl / Jewel
by Joan MacLeod
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by Neil Labute
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A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the author of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. In a modern version of Adam's seduction by Eve, The Shape of Things pits gentle, awkward, overweight Adam against experienced, analytical, amoral Evelyn, a graduate student in art. After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths, including cosmetic surgery, and a betrayal of his best friend, to improve his appearance and character.
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by Sharman MacDonald
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Sharon Pollock: Collected Works
by Sharon Pollock, Cynthia Zimmerman (Introduction)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
by Steven Dietz
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Shining City
by Conor McPherson
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Shining City has been an unqualified critical success and quite possibly Conor McPherson's finest work. In Dublin, a man seeks help from a counselor, claiming to have seen the ghost of his recently deceased wife. But what begins as just an unusual encounter becomes a struggle between the living and dead-a struggle that will shape and define both men for the rest of their lives.
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Shinn Plays: No. 1
by Christopher Shinn
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Christopher Shinn's plays have been premiered by the Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre, South Coast Rep, and Soho Theatre, and later seen regionally in the United States and around the world. He is the winner of an OBIE in Playwriting (2004-2005) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting (2005), was a Pulitzer Prize finalist (2008), and has also been nominated for an Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright (2003).
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Shoot the Crow
by Owen McCafferty
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A sad and hilarious play about a day in the life of four Irish tilers on a building site. As they come to the end of the job they've been working on, Ding-Ding and Randolph plan to nick a left-over pallet of tiles. Dind-Ding wants to buy a window-cleaning round and Randolph has his eye on a motorbike. But the foreman and his sidekick have had the same idea...
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The Shooting Stage
by Michael Lewis MacLennan
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by Denis Johnson
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These two works present a dramatized field guide to some of the more dysfunctional and dysphoric inhabitants of the American West: a sexual-misconduct investigator who misconducts herself sexually; a renegade Jehovah's Witness who supports his splinter Jehovean group by dealing drugs; the Cassandra Brothers and their father and their grandmother, thrown together at a family reunion/wedding/melee at their shabby homestead in Ukiah, California. When Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames was performed in San Francisco in 2001, the Chronicle said: "There's an enormous appeal in Johnson's bleak-comic vision of a semi-mythic American West. That appeal derives from the author's perfect vision of imperfection, embodied with such energy and courage in these marvelous pieces of theatre."
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by Mark Ravenhill
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Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology
by Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Editor)
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by Diane Flacks, Richard Greenblatt
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Sibs is an impressionistic exploration, fast and often very furious, of the complex relationship between brothers and sisters. Anchored in a poignat moment-adult siblings dealing with their parents' estate-the play flashes through many stages of sibling history, from infancy through the rich misery of growing up, the alien landscape of the adolescent years, and the inevitable confusion of adult years.
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by Melissa James Gibson
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"A super play . . . a wonderfully original take on urban friendship and the comedy of manners" (John Heilpern, The New York Observer) from a new American playwright.
In adjacent apartments that resemble nothing so much as broom closets with windows, the three young, ambitious neighbors of Melissa James Gibson's [sic] come together to discuss, flirt, argue, share their dreams, and plan their futures with unequal degrees of deep hopefulness and abject despair, all the while pushing the limits of their friendship to the max and demonstrating that language can be both an instrument of intimacy and a weapon of defense.
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by Warren D. Leight
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1999 Tony Award winner. A son remembers his jazz-playing father.
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Sienna Red
by Stephen Poliakoff
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Funny and dry play set in the retailing world by Britain's most eccentrically interesting playwright.
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Sight Unseen and Other Plays
by Donald Margulies
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Signature
by Beth Henley
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Simpatico: A Play in Three Acts
by Sam Shepard
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The script of Shepard's three-act drama about a desperate man trying to hold onto his wife and
career is set against a backdrop of professional horse racing. Pulitzer-winner Shepard structures his
latest exploration of new American archetypes as a detective story.
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Simply Disconnected
by Simon Gray
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From the author of Quartermaine's Terms and The Common Pursuit.
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Sistahs
by
Maxine Bailey, Sharon M. Lewis
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The Sisters Rosensweig
by Wendy Wasserstein
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The Skriker
by Caryl Churchill
Paperback, 52 pages
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Skull of Connemara
by Martin McDonagh
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Skylight
by David Hare
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A political play with heart; two former lovers confront the ethics of their relationship and the paths they've taken since.
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Slant Six: New Theater from Minnesota's Playwright's Center
by John Richardson, Mac Wellman (Editor), Morgan Jenness
Paperback, 206 pages
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Sled
by Judith Thompson
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Small Tragedy
by Craig Lucas
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It starts in rehearsal for a semi-amateur production of Oedipus Rex-with clandestine cast romances and a running debate about "fate"-and ends with the revelation of a hideous truth. Craig Lucas recently won the 2004 OBIE Award for Best Play for his work Small Tragedy. He is the author of numerous plays including Reckless and A Prelude to a Kiss, both of which were Broadway successes and made into films.
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The Small Things
by Edna Walsh
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Smoking With Lulu
by Janet Munsil
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Kenneth Tynan meets screen legend Louise Brooks in this based-on-truth fantasia, formerly titled Emphysema: A Love Story
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by Brad Fraser
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Inspired by Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Snake in Fridge examines the everyday lives of not so everyday characters. A group of eight misfits living in a misfit house go about their daily business in true Fraser style: Corbett works in porno and owns a pet snake; Caddie is a stripper; Travis is a busboy who aspires to be a waiter; and someone who lives in the house is a murderer. As bizarre things begin to happen, the house members wonder if it's the snake they hear at night - or is the house making them do bad deeds? As Violet says, "Nothing good ever happened in this house."
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The Snow Palace
by
Pam Gems
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Some Voices
by Joe Penhall
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Some Explicit Polaroids
by Mark Ravenhill
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So Long Life
by Peter Nichols
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Bristol, 1995. It is Alice's 85th birthday. An occasion for celebration. But like many family gatherings, it is also an occasion for parading long-held resentments, as her children attempt to persuade her to relinquish her independence and move to a home. But Alice has other plans...
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by Athol Fugard
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One of the world's greatest playwrights once again explores South Africa's legacy of Apartheid on two women -- one white, the other black -- who on the surface seem to have little in common except for their love for a white poet. With lyrical grace, Fugard once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.
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by Rebecca Gilman
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Spinning into Butter uses a case of harassment at a small New England university to explore the many layers of American racism. With Gilman's characteristic grace and wit, Spinning tells the story of poor, beleaguered dean Sarah Daniels. Her career is stagnating. Her on-again, off-again lover has dumped her for another woman. And in the middle of the crisis precipitated by the mysterious harassment of an African American student, she finds out she was hired because, on the basis of her name, she was erroneously thought to be African American. "An extraordinarily fresh, eloquent and candid new play . . . by a writer of surprising gifts." -- Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune
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Spring Awakening
by Steven Sater (Author), Duncan Sheik (Composer)
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Spring Awakening is an extraordinary new rock musical with book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Duncan Sheik. Inspired by Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society's efforts to control it, the piece seamlessly merges past and present, underscoring the timelessness of adolescent angst and the universality of human passion.
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Stairs to the Roof
by Tennessee Williams
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Sixty years ago a young Tennessee
Williams wrote a play looking toward the year 2001. Stairs to the Roof is a rare and different
Williams' work: a love story, a comedy, an experiment in meta-theatre, with a touch of early science
fiction.
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Stanley
by Pam Gems
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From the jacket: "Stanley Spencer is the wayward genius of modern British painting. His stubborn championing of ordinary people and local places as suitable subjects for religious painting was revolutionary. His appetite for life was hugely attractive . . . 'Stanley' is a brilliant and painfully truthful re-creation of the man and his milieu." Nominated for a Tony.
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A Steady Rain
by Keith Huff
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Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny’s wife and kids; Denny keeps Joey away from the bottle. But when a domestic disturbance call takes a turn for the worse, their friendship is put on the line. The result is a difficult journey into a moral gray area where trust and loyalty struggle for survival against a sobering backdrop of pimps, prostitutes, and criminal lowlifes. "A gritty, rich, thick, poetic and entirely gripping noir tale of two Chicago police officers whose inner need to serve and protect both consumes them and rips them apart." --Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
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The Stendhal Syndrome
by Terrence McNally
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Stephenson Plays 1
by Shelagh Stephenson
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by Evelyne de la Cheneliere, Morwyn Brebner (Translator)
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Stones in His Pockets
by Marie Jones
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In Stones in His Pockets, Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in a hilarious take on the film industry.
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Stonewall Jackson's House
by Jonathan Reynolds
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Stop Kiss
by Diana Son
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Storey: Plays Three
by David Storey
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The latest collection of David Storey's plays, including the newly revised and revived "The Changing Room" as well as "Cromwell" and "Life games."
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by Tracey Scott Wilson
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by Jessica Goldberg
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Stuff Happens
by David Hare
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"Stuff happens . . . And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." Such was Donald Rumsfeld's response on April 11, 2003, following the infamous looting and pillaging of Baghdad. In David Hare's powerful new play chronicling the extraordinary process leading to the American invasion of Iraq, this statement provides entrse into the melee of diplomacy, political power, and terrorist vendetta still making headlines around the world.
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by Jon Robin Baitz
Paperback, 172 pages
Synopsis: Baitz presents a collection of three acclaimed plays: The Substance of Fire, the story of a fiercely intellectual publisher who struggles with his children for control of his business; The End of the Day about an expatriate British doctor who succumbs to the twin lures of status and crime; and The Film Society, a frank examination of the controlling forces of a nearly bankrupt school for boys in South Africa.
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Suburban Motel
by
George F. Walker
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Sugar Mummies
by Tanika Gupta
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Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. Sugar Mummies is a funny, provocative, and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfalls of female sex tourism by the author of Gladiator Games.
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Suitcase, Or Those That Resemble Flies From A Distance
by Melissa James Gibson
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Summer of My Amazing Luck
by Chris Craddock
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Sunset Boulevard: The Musical
by Don Black, Christopher Hampton
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Superior Donuts
by Tracy Letts
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his epic, caustic Oklahoma family drama "August: Osage County," Letts has shifted gears with this entertaining comedy set in a donut shop. A love letter to the city where he has lived for more than 20 years, Letts describes his new work as "an exploration of the Chicago storefront experience." The play takes place in the north side neighborhood of Uptown, where Arthur Przybyszewski runs the donut shop that has been in his family for sixty years. More content to spend the day smoking weed and reminiscing about his Polish immigrant father, Arthur hires a shop assistant, the young African American Franco Wicks, who has both an unpublished novel and unpaid gambling debt. "It is a meditation on Chicago's old soul . . . a witty, seductive, live-wire and greatly entertaining dark comedy that you just don't want to end." --Chicago Tribune
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Supreme Dream
by Frank Moher and Rhonda Trodd
The amazing, totally true story (almost) of a young white woman who dreams of becoming one of The Supremes -- and does! Featuring all those great Supreme hits. The Globe and Mail:
"A fascinating picture of the joys, absurdities and indignities of life on the fringes of fame." Daily News: "A sure-fire hit. Funny, engrossing and completely entertaining . . . It stays with you long after you've left the theatre."
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Swallowing Bicycles
by Neil LaBute
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A dissection of the American dream, a world so tenuous that one choice can bring an idyllic existence crashing to the ground, Swallowing Bicycles takes a funny and shattering look at the things we cling to in life --- family, security, love --- and examines how far we'll go to hang on to what we've got.
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by Kathleen Oliver
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The Syringa Tree
by Pamela Gien
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by Richard Greenberg
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Darren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on the field and off. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he's gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion.
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by Eric Lane (Editor)
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by Charles Busch
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Charles Busch is renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical signature that has earned him the Outer Critics' John Gassner Award for Playwrighting and a Drama Desk Award for Best Play nomination. Of his latest play, The New York Times has written, "Uproarious ... wall-to-wall laughs ... Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream and stays comfortably afloat there." Busch is also the author of such plays as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom -- one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history -- and Psycho Beach Party, a cross between Gidget and Spellbound.
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The Tale of Teeka
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Michel Marc Bouchard, Linda Gaboriau (trans.)
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Gripping and theatrically electrifying approach to the subject of child abuse.
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Talk of the City
by Stephen Poliakoff
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Tantalus Plays
by John Barton
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In Tantalus, we return to Ancient Greece to view the origins and outcome of the Trojan Wars with a modern eye. The legend, handed down through the ages in fragments, remains at the core of Western civilization. In this ten-part epic drama, the story of told complete. Achilles, Helen of Troy, Cassandra, Orestes and the heroes of Greek myth face up to the questions and dilemmas of a world at war.
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Ten Days on Earth
by Ronnie Burkett
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Darrel is a middle-aged mentally challenged man who lives with his mother. When she dies in her sleep, Darrel does not realize she is gone, and, for ten days, he lives alone. Tandem to Darrel's day to day routine are the adventures of his favorite children's book characters, Honeydog and Little Burp. The newest play from puppeteer Ronnie Burkett who garnered critical acclaim for Provenance.
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Tender
by Abi Morgan
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As Gloria waits for her husband to return home, 14 months seems a long time to go out to buy a pint of milk. Seeking solace in the friendship of a young man also looking for love, a domino of friendships and near misses unravel the disparate lives of several people.
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by Jon Robin Baitz
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by Terrence McNally
Volume 2
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Testimony: Five Plays
by Emily Mann
Paperback
Amazon.com "Expert Editor's" pick: The sweep of Mann's career is captured in this new
volume, Testimonies, which contains four of her
plays: from her first, Anulla, in the early 1970s,
through Still Life and Execution of Justice,
to Greensboro: A Requiem, in the mid-1990s. Mann's strength is that she takes
us deep inside not just the "survivors," as she calls
her good guys, but also the skulls of her bad guys. She
draws the roadmap that took them from being honest,
God-fearing people to calculating killers. With all the
overheated yammering about race in America, it's one of
the truly insightful and intelligent reflections on
this mote in mankind's eye.
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Theatre Centre: Plays for Young People
by Rosamunde Hutt (Editor)
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New plays on challenging topics for youth theatre. Suitable for use with the
11+ range, these plays will become essential texts for schools, colleges,
and youth theatres. Includes: Listen to Your Parents by Benjamin Zephaniah,
Gorgeous by Anna Furse, Wise Guys by Philip Osment, Look at Me by Anna
Reynolds, Pressure by Angela Turvey, and Souls by Roy Williams.
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Theatre for Young Audiences: 20 Great Plays For Children
by Coleman A. Jennings (Editor)
Paperback
Plays included in this book include: Charlotte's Web, Joseph Robinette; Really Rosie, Maurice Sendak; Crow & Weasel, Jim Leonard; A Thousand Cranes,Kathryn S. Miller
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The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays
by Sabina Berman, Adam Versenyi (Translator)
Hardcover
Plays from one of Mexico's leading playwrights.
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by Tennessee Williams
Hardcover
Many of Williams' late plays were severely underestimated; Vieux Carre and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, for example, may not be Streetcar, but they are skillful and heartfelt works by a master. Catch up with them.
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Theresa Rebeck Volume III: The Complete Short Plays 1989-2005
by Theresa Rebeck
Paperback
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Things We Do for Love: A Play
by Alan Ayckbourn
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Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer
by Tony Kushner
Paperback, 224 pages
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The Third Ascent
by Frank Moher
On an expedition up Chief Mountain in Montana, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson confronts his role in the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Thirteen Hands and Other Plays
by Carol Shields
Paperback
From one of Canada's most beloved authors comes a collection of four works written for the stage, including her most popular and highly acclaimed play Thirteen Hands.
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This is a Chair
by Caryl Churchill
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by Neil LaBute
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Belinda and Cody Phipps appear a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is black--"rich, black, and different," in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former (white) classmate. As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal. Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, This Is How It Goes unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which the wild card of race is played by both black and white in America.
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by Kenneth Lonergan
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An unblinking portrait of young urban life in the 1980s, Kenneth Lonergan's look at "the real Real World" (The New York Times). First produced by the New Group in New York in 1996 to great critical acclaim and a Drama Desk Award nomination for best new play.
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This Lime Tree Bower
by Conor McPherson
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by Will Eno
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"Astonishing in its impact. . . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth." -Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
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by Timberlake Wertenbaker
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From the jacket: "Some paintings are valuable as well as expensive - but which? This question weighs heavily on the central character of this play, an artist who, after years of success, is unescapably cofronted with it." Read it in tandem with Yasmina Reza's hit "Art."
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Three Contemporary Brazilian Plays
by Plinio Marcos
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Three Days of Rain: The American Plan / The Author's Voice / Hurrah at Last
by Richard Greenberg
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Collected in this volume are Greenberg's most important plays, including his latest, Hurrah at Last, which Laurie Winer in the Los Angeles Times called "funny, acerbic and delightfully straightforward about falsehoods and bargains of intimacy."
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Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive / Old Saybrook / Central Park West
by Woody Allen
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Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York,
in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody
Allen could imagine.
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Three Plays: The Boys in the Band / A Breeze from the Gulf / For Reasons That
Remain Unclear
by Mart Crowley
Paperback
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Three Plays After
by Brian Friel
Paperback
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by Horton Foote
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Bringing together the rich characters and wry humor of a celebrated Texas scribe, this book collects three of Foote's most recognized plays. In these works, Foote deftly combines the claustrophobia of the Southern families from Tennessee Williams, the physical and psychological dysfunctions of Eugene O'Neill's families, and the humor and pathos of small town Southern life portrayed by Flannery O'Connor. "Dividing the Estate" was Foote's final major success before his death in 2009.
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Three Plays for Ireland
by
Stewart Parker
Paperback
From the author of "Spokesong."
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Three Really Nasty Plays
by Ron Chambers
Paperback
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Three Tall Women
by Edward Albee
Hardcover, 110 pages
Synopsis:
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for best play, as well as a number of other prestigious awards,"Three Tall Woman" has been
called Albee's finest achievement. In his triumphant return to the New York and London stages, Albee demonstrates insight and
vision with a moving look at mortality. "Stunning . . . nuanced and breathtaking." --Time.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays Two: The Break of Day / After Darwin / Credible Witness / The Ash Girl / Diianeira
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Paperback
In this second collection of her plays, Timberlake Wertenbaker continues to explore the intellectual and emotional terrains of personal identity and social fragmentation as well as the effects -- sometimes haunting, always transformative -- of the past on the present. Encompassing plays from 1995 to 2001, in addition to one new play, Dianeira, Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays Two brings together five plays that confirm their author's place as one of the most versatile and powerful playwrights of our day.
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by David Ives
Paperback
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A Time to Keep
by Stephanie Dale, David Edgar
Paperback
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Time Stands Still
Donald Margulies
Paperback
In his "absorbing, intelligent" (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald Margulies uncovers the layers of a relationship between a photojournalist and foreign correspondent -- once addicted to the adrenaline of documenting the atrocities of war, and now grounded in the couple's Brooklyn loft. Photographer Sarah was seriously injured while covering the war in Iraq; her reporter partner James had left weeks earlier, when the stress and horrors became too much for him. Now James writes online movie reviews while Sarah recovers, mourning for her Iraqi driver (and former lover) killed in the explosion, and itching to get back behind the camera.
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Tiny Dynamite
by Abi Morgan
Paperback
When memory takes hold, when chaos takes over and when the electricity between us becomes overwhelming. An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike twice.
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Titanic: The Book of the Musical
by Peter Stone
Hardcover
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Tolstoy's Wife
by Frank Moher
A riotous dark comedy about Sofya Tolstoy's desperate efforts to keep her famous husband from publishing his diaries. The Globe and Mail: "Captures the farcical aspects of Leo and Sofya's marriage brilliantly . . . clever, funny."
Fast Forward weekly: "Strikes a perfect balance between the poignant and the comic . . . a gleefully irreverent gem."
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Tom Murphy Plays: 5: Too Late for Logic / The Wake / The House / Alice Trilogy
by Tom Murphy
Paperback
Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the author's recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy. The Wake recounts the story of a woman returning from the United States to her home town in Ireland. Hailed by The Times, Too Late for Logic has been called "A major new play . . . these scenes are beautifully imagined, ache with feeling, and flower into incidents of piercing sadness or absurd laughter." Described by The Irish Times, The House is "The most compelling indictment of emigration ever committed to the stage." Alice Trilogy dramatizes three stages in Alice's life: 1980, 1995, and 2005.
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Tom Stoppard Plays 5: Arcadia / The Real Thing / Night and Day / Indian Ink / Hapgood
by Tom Stoppard
Paperback
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Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Paperback
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, forettling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
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Tragedy: a tragedy
by Will Eno
Paperback
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by Giles Havergal
Paperback
Based (with superb theatrical imagination) on the novel by Graham Greene
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Trout Stanley
by Claudia Dey
Paperback
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Two Plays: Sitting on Paradise and a Guide to Mourning
by
Eugene Stickland
Paperback
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Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays
by Nilo Cruz
Paperback
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The Ugly Man
by Brad Fraser
Paperback, 158 pages
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Ugly Rumours
by
Howard Brenton
Paperback
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Underneath the Lintel
by Glen Berger
Paperback
On an inauspicious morning at a Dutch library, a librarian makes an unexpected find in the overnight return box ... a much mistreated Baedeker's guidebook 123 years overdue. Even without compound interest, this tardiness merits a tidy fine, and in Underneath the Lintel our librarian hero determines to track down the miscreant.
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The Underpants: A Play
by Steve Martin, Carl Hose Sternheim
Paperback
I've seen London, I've seen France, I've seen Steve Martin's Underpants! So chanted all of New York, as they raced to see Steve Martin's new play. Theobald Maske has an unusual problem: his wife's underpants won't stay on. One Sunday morning they fall to her ankles right in the middle of town -- a public scandal! Mortified, Theo swears to keep her at home until she can find some less unruly undies. Amid this chaos he's trying to rent a room in their flat. The prospective lodgers have some underlying surprises of their own.
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by Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton
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The Unnatural And Accidental Women
by Linda Gaboriau, Marie Clements
Paperback
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by Dolly Dhingra
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Meet Chumpa Chamelli-bored secretary at Concrete Weekly, twenty-something girlfriend of the laddish Ashok, and a woman who knows her own mind and expects more from life. With East End mates Mandy and Sab in tow, Chumpa sets off on a search for a better job -- and an ending straight out of the movies.
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Urinetown: The Musical
by Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis
Paperback
Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Book, Urinetown is a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.
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Vaclav Havel: The Short Plays
by Carol Rocamora (Translator)
Paperback
Vaclav Havel - dissident, activist, essayist, philosopher, politician, founder and president of the Czech Republic - is known the world over as a hero of the human rights movement and a martyr for the "right to write." But few in the West know that he is also his country's most famous playwright. Author of ten full-lengths and eight one-acts, his plays not only tell the story of his country, but also helped to change its history. Now for the first time, the eight short plays of Vaclav Havel are being published in one collection, including the acclaimed trilogy entitled "The Vanek Plays," as well as four one-acts never before been translated into English or seen anywhere in the West. Bright, absurdist, satiric and laceratingly funny, these sharply observed plays tell the story of life under totalitarianism, in a turbulent time when humor was the ultimate weapon of survival.
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The Vagina Monologues
by
Eve Ensler
Paperback
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Valparaiso
by Don Delillo
Hardcover
A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity
and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching.
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Venus
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Paperback
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Venus in Fur
by David Ives
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A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel "Venus in Fur" by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term "masochism" was coined). At the end of a long day in which the actresses Thomas auditions fail to impress him, in walks Vanda, very late and seemingly clueless, but she convinces him to give her a chance. As they perform scenes from Thomas's play, and Vanda the actor and Vanda the character gradually take control of the audition, the lines between writer, actor, director, and character begin to blur. An exploration of gender roles and sexuality, in which desire twists and turns in on itself, "Venus in Fur" is also a witty, unsettling look at the art of acting -- onstage and off. "Nifty, skillfully wrought entertainment, an enjoyable game of kitten-with-a-whip and mouse." --Charles Isherwood, New York Times
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Victory Gardens Theater Presents: Seven New Plays from the Playwrights Ensemble
by Richard Christiansen (Foreword), Sandy Shinner (Editor), Dennis Zacek (Editor)
Hardcover
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Vincent in Brixton
by Nicholas Wright
Paperback
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by Norm Foster
Paperback
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by Richard Greenberg
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by Denyse C. Lynde (Editor)
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The Voysey Inheritance
by David Mamet
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One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barker's classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this brilliant adaptation. For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients' accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm from his aging father, discovers the embezzlement that has been keeping his relatives in a life of luxury, he must weigh the trappings of wealth and the imperative to preserve his family's good name against the better principles of his conscience. But moral righteousness turns to self-protection when he comes to understand fully the consequences of his "inheritance."
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Wade in the Water
by George Boyd
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Follow Nelson Williams Johns, a man in search of his roots, on an uplifting journey that begins in Civil War-era Georgia and leads to Sierra Leone. Nelson is forced to choose between a perilous freedom and the safety of the known on his quest for increased personal and social consciousness.
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
by Eric Bogosian
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Bogosian's newest solo show, his first since 1993, was a sold out hit in its recent New York City run. Wake Up is Bogosian's meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. "Bogosian hasn't simply crossed the line of good taste, he has snorted it."-The Daily Texan
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Walker and Ghost Dance
by Derek Walcott
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On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history. In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.
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by Dennis Foon
Paperback
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The Waverly Gallery
by Kenneth Lonergan
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Kenneth Lonergan is known for his trademark humor and genius for capturing the real heart and soul of human interactions. Time magazine raved that he is "among our most gifted, unflinching and unpretentious new playwrights." The Waverly Gallery is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease.
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Well
by Lisa Kron
Paperback
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The West of All Possible Worlds: Six Contemporary Canadian Plays
by Moira Day (Editor)
Paperback
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What Didn't Happen
by Christopher Shinn
Paperback
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The Weir and Other Plays
by Conor McPherson
Paperback
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What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts
by
Craig Lucas
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What Lies Before Us
by Morris Panych
Paperback
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What of the Night?: Selected Plays
by Maria Irene Fornes
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A major new collection of the plays by Maria Irene Fornes. Includes Abingdon Square, one of the author's best-known works originally produced in 1987 under Fornes' direction. This story of a young woman's personal liberation set in Greenwich Village of the early 1900s is played out in thirty-one sparse scenes of love and betrayal. The title play, What of the Night?, is an epic drama of four short plays on the individual's struggle with poverty, love, and sorrow. The volume also includes The Summer in Gossensass and Enter the Night. Maria Irene Fornes is a nine-time OBIE Award-winner, widely represented in the curriculum of contemporary theater in universities, and anthologized in the major contemporary drama textbooks.
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Where's My Money?
by John Patrick Shanley
Paperback
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William Mastrosimone: Collected Plays, Vol. 2
by William Mastrosimone
Hardcover
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Wildest Dreams
by Alan Ayckbourn
Paperback, 95 pages
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Wind Cries Mary
by Philip Kan Gotanda
Paperback
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Wit: A Play
by Margaret Edson
Paperback - 85 pages
1999 Pulitzer winner about a dying academic who finds solace in her only friends -- the great poets.
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Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings
by Larry Kramer
Paperback
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by Alexis Greene (Editor)
Paperback
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by David Lindsay-Abaire
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Two years after Fuddy Meers floored both audiences and critics, David Lindsay-Abaire followed up his debut hit with Wonder of the World, and had critics searching for new superlatives. The New York production featured knockout performances by Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Sedaris. Ben Brantley, in the New York Times wrote "clearly, Mr. Lindsay-Abaire hasn't lost his playfully wicked eye, equally appalled and affectionate . . . his style both embraces and spoofs the All-American appetite for spiritual lift, sitcom perkiness, and slimy tabloid prurience."
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by Brian Friel
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Wrecks: And Other Plays
by Neil LaBute
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Can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central question behind Wrecks, Neil LaBute's latest foray into the dark side of human nature. Meet Edward Carr: loving father, successful businessman, grieving widower. In this concise powerhouse of a play, LaBute limns the boundaries of love, exploring the limits of what society will accept versus what the heart will desire. This collection also features rarely staged short plays, including "Liars' Club," "Coax," and the never-before-seen "Falling in Like."
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Write On: Theatre Saskatchewan Anthology of One-Act Plays
by Theatre Saskatchewan (Editor)
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Writer's Block: Two One Act Plays
by Woody Allen
Paperback
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Y2K
by Arthur Kopit
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An edgy, erotically charged information-age thriller, this new play by award-winning playwright Arthur Kopit exposes the control that computers can have over our lives, morality, even bank accounts. "Kopit's cool topical thriller exploits technophobes' fear of the new millennium and the increasing power cybergeeks will wield at the expense of the computer-illiterate. . . . Kopit's writing is laced with mordant wit, and the central characters are subtly drawn." -- Variety
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Yasmina Reza: Plays 1: Art / Life X 3 / The Unexpected Man / Conversations After a Burial
by Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton (Translator)
Yasmina Reza's plays reflect the razor sharp wit, social commentary, and impeccable comedic timing that have earned the praise of critics throughout the world.
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Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang
Paperback
"A pungent play of ideas with a big heart. 'Yellow Face' brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide, an even-handed treatment and a hopeful, healing vision of a world that could be." --Variety
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The Young Man from Atlanta
by Horton Foote
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Foote's Pulitzer Prize-Winner, part of his great family cycle. A good-hearted man whose life is collapsing cannot fathom the truth about his late son.
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