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Plays

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On New Ground

On New Ground

Contemporary Hispanic-American plays

Edited by M. Elizabeth Osborn

A collection of six plays by outstanding authors who write in English but draw from their various Hispanic backgrounds.

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Marsha Norman: Four Plays

Marsha Norman: Four Plays

By Marsha Norman

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'night, Mother comes an unforgettable collection of plays.

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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

By Alfred Uhry

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play which became the Oscar-winning film - a delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old.

First Run

First Run

New Plays by New Writers

Edited by Kate Harwood

Five significant debut plays – first staged in the UK in the late eighties – from writers who have gone on to establish their reputations in major theatres.

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Prickly Heat

Prickly Heat

By Simon Donald

A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

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    Inventing a New Colour

    Inventing a New Colour

    By Paul Godfrey

    A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.

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      An Enemy of the People

      An Enemy of the People

      By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Arthur Miller

      Arthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.

      Icecream

      Icecream

      By Caryl Churchill

      An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.

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      Cloud Nine

      Cloud Nine

      By Caryl Churchill

      A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

      Traps

      Traps

      By Caryl Churchill

      An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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      Ghetto

      Ghetto

      By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David Lan

      The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

      Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

      Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

      Edited by Richard Nelson

      Four lively dramas from the twenties and thirties evoking a world of gangsters, crooked cops, intrepid newpaper hacks and slightly tarnished damsels in distress.

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      Edgar: Shorts

      Edgar: Shorts

      By David Edgar

      A collection of shorter plays from stage and television by one of the UK's foremost political playwrights.

      Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays

      Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays

      By Tina Howe

      Four plays by Tina Howe: Coastal Disturbances, Museum, The Art of Dining and Painting Churches.

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      Sister Suzie Cinema

      Sister Suzie Cinema

      The Collected Poems and Performances 1976-1986

      By Lee Breuer

      A 'doo-wop opera' inspired by Lee Breuer's coming of age amidst the pop culture of the 50s.

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      The Gospel at Colonus

      The Gospel at Colonus

      By Lee Breuer

      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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      Playing for Time

      Playing for Time

      By Arthur Miller

      The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself.

      Sunday in the Park with George

      Sunday in the Park with George

      By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

      The Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.

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