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This and Other Plays

The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

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Fabulation

In Fabulation, playwright Lynn Nottage reimagines Esther (the character from her companion play, Intimate Apparel) as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.

    The Shipment

    The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.

      Lear

      Young Jean Lee's Lear is an alternative re-working of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy, focusing on the king's three daughters.

        The Inspector

        A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece by American playwright Richard Nelson, in collaboration with the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

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        Richard Foreman: The Manifestos and Essays

        A collection of writings from the acclaimed and wildly inventive artist Richard Foreman.

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        The Mineola Twins

        An outrageously satirical play examining women's experience and the women's movement over more than three decades in post-World War II America.

        Published in volume The Mammary Plays

          The Happiest Song Plays Last

          The final installment in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s three-play cycle, which began with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Pulitzer Prize-winner Water by the Spoonful.

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          The Country House

          A witty and compelling play that takes a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives.

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          Ode to Joy

          A sensitive drama about the interplay between illness, addiction and love, from the acclaimed American playwright Craig Lucas.

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          Circle Mirror Transformation

          A quiet masterpiece tracing the lives of five strangers who come together in a community centre in Vermont, New England, for a series of creative drama classes for adults.

          Published in volume The Vermont Plays

            The Seagull

            A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.

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            Gem of the Ocean

            Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904. Aunt Esther, the 285-year-old fiery matriarch of 1839 Wylie Avenue, sets Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama, on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening.

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            Joe Turner's Come and Gone

            A play about a time in American history when the sons and daughters of recently freed slaves journeyed to the industrial cities of the North in search of prosperity, a new way of life, and, essentially, their own identities.

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            Seven Guitars

            A play set in 1940s Pittsburgh, about the search for self-fulfillment and acceptance in a hostile world.

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            Two Trains Running

            A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

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            Sister Suzie Cinema

            The Collected Poems and Performances 1976-1986

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

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            Ballad of Yachiyo

            A dramatic tale of a young Japanese girl's sexual awakening, and ultimate social downfall, in Hawaii's harsh sugar-cane plantation system of the early twentieth century.

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