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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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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.

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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    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

    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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    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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