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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Barbecue / Bootycandy: two plays
Two plays by a leading African-American playwright and director, Barbecue and Bootycandy.
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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.
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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The Piano Lesson
A powerful exploration of the legacy of slavery in America in a play that focuses on a brother and sister in 1930s Pittsburgh as they argue over whether to sell the family piano, an instrument tainted by the wages of slavery.
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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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Sleep Deprivation Chamber
A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.
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Mizlansky/Zilinsky
A play about the desperate cases lurking unsuccessfully on the fringes of the movie world.
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Insurrection: Holding History
An African-American graduate student is transported back through time, with his 189-year-old grandfather, to Nat Turner's infamous slave rebellion.
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Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays
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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On New Ground
Contemporary Hispanic-American plays
A collection of six plays by outstanding authors who write in English but draw from their various Hispanic backgrounds.
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Through the Leaves and other plays
Three plays from the controversial German playwright whose works have helped reshape world drama.
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