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August: Osage County
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Tracy Letts
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 ...
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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? A play
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Edward Albee
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.
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Cloud 9
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Caryl Churchill
"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.
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Cat on a hot tin roof
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Tennessee Williams
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.
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Moon for the Misbegotten
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
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 ...
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Topdog/Underdog
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Suzan-Lori Parks
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 ...
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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Thornton Wilder, Paula Vogel (Foreword by)
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 ...
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Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry, Rosetta James
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 ...
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The Waverly Gallery
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Kenneth Lonergan
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 ...
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The Hours: A Screenplay
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David Hare
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. ...
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The designated mourner
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Wallace Shawn
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.
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The Voysey Inheritance
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Harley Granville Barker
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 ...
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The Long Christmas Ride Home
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Paula Vogel
"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 ...
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Valley song
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Athol Fugard
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 ...
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Last of the Thorntons
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Horton Foote
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.
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August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey
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Kim Pereira
In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.
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Cloud nine
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Caryl Churchill
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A Breeze from the Gulf
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Mart Crowley
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A Doll's House: And Two Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Johan Ibsen
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The Memory of Water and Five Kinds of Silence
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Shelagh Stephenson
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 ...
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Pretty Fire
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Charlayne Woodard (Performed by)
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 ...
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Cat on a hot tin roof ; The milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; The night of the Iguana
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Tennessee Williams
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 ...
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Running Dog, Paper Tiger
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Simon Johnston
Set in Hong Kong in 1967, when Communist Chinese riots rocked the stability of the British Colony, a mixed race family is forced to choose between loyalty to their British roots and to their race.
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A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays
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Professor Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley
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' ...
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Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama
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Wendy Wall, Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor), Anne Barton (Editor)
What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the ...
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