Plays
The Melville Boys
Owen and Lee Melville arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at four lives in transition.
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The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God
Rainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.
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Modern Jewish Plays
Six plays, six playwrights, six takes on Israel...
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Einstein's Gift
A Canadian play based on the life and work of Nobel Laureate Dr Fritz. Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions.
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The Gospel at Colonus
Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.
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Love & Science
This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.
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Spunk
A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.
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Pacific Overtures
Exploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music, this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals.
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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.
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Fantasio and other plays
Four plays by the great French Romantic poet Alfred de Musset (1810-57) in accomplished modern translations by American theatre practitioners.
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Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater
Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars
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Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays
Four plays from one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility.
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The America Play and other works
A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.
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Raised in Captivity
The story of two siblings reunited at their mother's funeral.
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A Fair Country
A play in the tradition of Arthur Miller: an impassioned exploration of the impact of politics on an American family.
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Marisol and other plays
A collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo
A bitter-sweet romantic comedy from the author of Driving Miss Daisy.
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Extreme Exposure
Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century
An anthology of excerpts from the works of more than fifty solo writer/performers including: Eric Bogosian, Laurie Anderson, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg.
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