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Plays

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Luna Park: short plays and monologues

A collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, featuring three decades' worth of short plays, one-acts and monologues.

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Reckless and other plays

A 'greatest hits' volume by one of the best-known gay playwrights in the US.

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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and other plays

Three surreal plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, author of Marisol.

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Richard Maxwell: Plays 1996-2000

The first collection of work by one of America's most important, vital and original young voices, including Boxing 2000, Caveman and the OBIE-Award winning House.

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The Long Christmas Ride Home

Past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life.

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Well

A play about a mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighbourhood, despite her inability to heal herself.

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Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays

Two companion pieces spanning 100 years in the lives of African American women.

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Plays From the Boom Box Galaxy

An anthology of performance texts from the hip-hop generation.

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The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

Three multifaceted works exploring the urgency and complexity of the Middle East’s political landscape, through the voices and bodies of the people who inhabit it.

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Seven Jewish Children

A short play written in response to the situation in Gaza at the time of writing in January 2009.

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Limbo

A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays

    Catherine Medbh

    A bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.

    Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays

      About a Goth

      A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

      Published in volume Me, As A Penguin

        Notes for First Time Astronauts

        A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

        Published in volume Me, As A Penguin

          Who is Sylvia?

          Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.

          Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

            Duologue

            Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

            Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

              Spacewang

              A monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.

              Published in volume The Kitchen Sink

                Leavings

                A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.

                Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: One