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1	August: Osage County more books like this by Tracy Letts add to wishlist Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people."-"Time Out New York" "Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still ... see all copies from $7.18! new only from $7.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? A play more books like this by Edward Albee add to wishlist This modern American play watches an evening with two couples and the lies they fabricate about themselves to keep on living. It is a vicious and haunting drama. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Cat on a hot tin roof more books like this by Tennessee Williams add to wishlist One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," then and now. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cloud 9 more books like this by Caryl Churchill add to wishlist "Cloud Nine" is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria and sex. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Moon for the Misbegotten more books like this by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill add to wishlist Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation lives in a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse with her conniving father. Together, they're a formidable force as they scrape together a livelihood. But Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone, her father's drinking buddy - a third-rate actor whose dreams of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Topdog/Underdog more books like this by Suzan-Lori Parks add to wishlist 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, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Skin of Our Teeth more books like this by Thornton Wilder, Paula Vogel (Foreword by) add to wishlist A timeless statement about human foibles . . . and human endurance, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished production notes, diary entries, and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. Time magazine called "The Skin of Our Teeth" "a sort of "Hellzapoppin'" with ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $7.20! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Hours: A Screenplay more books like this by David Hare add to wishlist Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel, which is inspired by Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, tells three simultaneous stories. One is about Virginia Woolf while she is writing the novel in the mid-1920s. In another, a woman reading MRS. DALLOWAY in 1949 fights off despair. In the third, a woman named Clarissa (whose nickname is "Mrs. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Voysey Inheritance more books like this by Harley Granville Barker add to wishlist Financial chicanery and ethical conflict in early twentieth-century classic being revived at the National Theatre Edward's highly principled world is turned upside down when his father reveals that he has been illegally speculating with clients' money. To make matters worse, he soon discovers his large, scandal-fearing family would perpetuate the ... see all copies from $5.30! new only from $7.32! \| SVS
10	Cloud nine more books like this by Caryl Churchill add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.64! \| first editions
11	The Waverly Gallery more books like this by Kenneth Lonergan add to wishlist 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," and called his first play, "This Is Our Youth," one of the ten best plays of 1998. With T"he Waverly Gallery, "Lonergan has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.65! \| SVS
12 view cover	Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry, Rosetta James add to wishlist This play debuted in the spring of 1959 and has since been translated into more than 30 languages. It is the story of a poor black family teetering with becoming part of the middle class. Family struggles test the faith of all involved, and the result is less than expected and filled with heartbreak. This concise supplement to Lorraine Vivian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	The designated mourner more books like this by Wallace Shawn add to wishlist A play comprised of a series of monologues by two men and one woman. Each story enfolds the others, and illuminates yet also obscures them. Howard is Judy's father, and Jack her husband. Jack is clearly lower on the social scale than the other two, but in the end he is the survivor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Last of the Thorntons more books like this by Horton Foote add to wishlist The main character in this play is one of the great old ladies of Harrison, Texas, where her family, the Thorntons, wielded power for generations. Here, she recalls her life and faces its imminent conclusion, thinking back on the legacy her prominent family left the town and on ways she wishes her contributions to it could have been different. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	A Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lawrence Kappel add to wishlist Lorraine Hansberry's play is a psychological study of a working class black family on the south side of Chicago in the 1940s. This collection of essays explores the dominant characters and themes in the play and looks at its representation in various stage and screen adaptations. see all copies from $17.15!
16 view cover	Valley song more books like this by Athol Fugard add to wishlist Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served as one of the moral beacons in the bleak world of South Africa, and now, in Valley Song - this coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Doll's House: And Two Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen add to wishlist see all copies from $4.49! new only from $14.42! \| SVS
18	A Breeze from the Gulf more books like this by Mart Crowley add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Pretty Fire more books like this by Charlayne Woodard (Performed by) add to wishlist In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph. This NAACP award-winning play is a one-woman tour de force. Chosen as a Recommended Young Adult Audiobook by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50!
20 view cover	The Long Christmas Ride Home more books like this by Paula Vogel add to wishlist "Brilliant . . . even more ambitious than Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" . . . it covers more ground and is bolder in its storytelling. Vogel's language is at its most poetic, eloquent and elegiac. In fact, its vivid imagery rivals the prose style of any great American short story writer. The play sounds like it might have been adapted from a ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.52! \| signed copies \| SVS
21 view cover	The Memory of Water and Five Kinds of Silence more books like this by Shelagh Stephenson add to wishlist In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships. '"Combines a flair for witty dialogue with a relish for the dynamics of ... see all copies from $2.59! new only from $7.66! \| SVS
22 view cover	A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays more books like this by Professor Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley add to wishlist Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' ... see all copies from $9.71! new only from $10.80! \| SVS
23 view cover	House of Agnes more books like this by Levi David Addai add to wishlist House of Agnes is the second play by Levi Addai, described as 'an attractive new talent' by the Independent after his 2005 debut 93.2FM. The play is published as a programme text to coincide with the production by Paines Plough that opens at the Oval House, London in March 2008. After forty years of building a home in London, Agnes is retiring and ... see all copies from $9.13! new only from $9.13! \| SVS
24 view cover	Cat on a hot tin roof ; The milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; The night of the Iguana more books like this by Tennessee Williams add to wishlist Tennesee Williams' landmark play exposes the emotional lies governing relationships in the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins. The patriarch, Big Daddy, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. His two married sons, Gooper (Brother Man) and Brick, have returned for the occasion, the former with his pregnant wife and five ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $24.19!
25 view cover	Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce more books like this by Jane M Ford add to wishlist Using Shakespeare's incest plots as a backdrop, Jane Ford traces the incest theme in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, exploring in particular the father-daughter-suitor triangle. As Ford demonstrates, three patterns predominate: the father eliminates the suitor and retains the daughter; the father submits to ... see all copies from $24.50! new only from $83.70! \| signed copies \| first editions

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