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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
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Arthur Miller
Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their ...
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Wit
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Margaret Edson
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerns the intersection of metaphysical poetry and terminal cancer. The character Vivian Bearing, a prominent professor, assesses her life during a traumatic hospital stay.
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Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations.
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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Robert Bolt (Preface by)
Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time.
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Death of a salesman certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller's classic portrait of an ordinary man's struggle to leave his mark on the world -- now in Twentieth-Century Classics for the first time On its New York premiere in 1949, Death of a Salesman was hailed as the first great play to lay bare the emptiness of America's relentless drive for material success. The extraordinary success of the ...
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Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Three plays by Eugene O'Neill: "Desire Under the Elms," "Strange Interlude," and "Mourning Becomes Electra."
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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Dorothy Allison
This memoir by the author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA reveals the true story behind Allison's fiction. She explores the effects on her of her troubled childhood that included poverty, an abusive stepfather who raped her when she was 5, and a collection of relatives from whom she received both love and cruelty. Originally a performance piece, this ...
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
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Steve Martin
Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays ...
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Zoot Suit and Other Plays
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Luis Valdez
Here are three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez's most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis Valdez, the most recognized and celebrated ...
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Fires in the Mirror
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Anna Deavere Smith
Last year's acclaimed off-Broadway play is as much a commentary on current racial tensions as it is a work of drama. Award-winning writer and solo performer Smith derived her scripts from interviews with people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots. As seen on PBS. Photos.
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All My Sons
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Arthur Miller
All my Sons: set by NICCEA at GCSE. Hereford Plays: the best of twentieth-century drama for study and performance. A set of plays that are perfect for class reading and performance, providing effective solutions to today?s teaching needs. Offers the widest range of texts for GCSE and A-Level available. Each play is supported by practical advice ...
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The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook: An Actor's Guide to Over 1000 Monologues and Dialogues from More Than 300 Contemporary Plays
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Ed Hooks
This invaluable resource is the intelligent actor's alternative to scene books. It lists over 1,000 audition-suitable monologues and dialogues from more than 300 plays and provides important background information on the plot and characters.
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Twilight: Los Angeles 1992
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Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith used transcripts of interviews she conducted over nine months following the Los Angeles riots to compose this theatrical documentary of the human impact of the violence that has savaged Southern California since the Rodney King verdict.
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You Can't Take It with You: Comedy in Three Acts / By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
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Moss Hart, Professor George S Kaufman
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Play in Two Acts
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Dale Wasserman
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A History of African American Theatre
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James V Hatch, Errol Hill, Don B Wilmeth (Editor)
This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles - from African ritual born out of slavery to ...
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Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues
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Eva Mekler, Michael Schulman
The best source for contemporary and classic scenes and monologues, this volume is the essential compendium for actors and students of theater. Notable playwrights featured in this collection include Christopher Durang, Eve Ensler, Paula Vogel, and Terrence McNally.
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Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities
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Anna Deavere Smith
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The Best Plays of ..
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Otis Guernsey (Editor), Al Hirschfeld (Illustrator)
Covering one of the most successful New York Theatre seasons in decades, this edition of the Best Plays annuals contains all the many features that make it the indispensable reference work in its field. What distinguishes the series is its unequalled depth and breadth of information on the season just concluded and its records of the key ...
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24 Favorite One Act Plays
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Van Cartwell, Bennett A Cerf (Editor), Van H Cartmell (Editor)
Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne.
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Butterflies are free.
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Leonard Gershe
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Heroes and Saints and Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints
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Cherrie L Moraga
Heroes and Saints and Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: 'Shadow of a Man', winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; 'Heroes and Saints', winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and ...
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Our Country's Good
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Timberlake Wertenbaker
Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal..."Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: ...
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Six characters in search of an author
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Professor Luigi Pirandello
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director ...
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Golden boy
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Clifford Odets
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