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Collected for the first time in one volume are six inventive theater pieces created by Obie Award-winning theater company The Civilians. Based on the creative investigation of actual experience, and often intertwined with experimental cabaret, their...

1534: John of Leyden proclaims himself the Favorite of Heaven, runs naked through the streets of Munster, Germany, and forms a society free of laws or private property. 1976: John Lydon proclaims himself an "antichrist," helps launch a movement to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874836509Author MCBRIDE-SMITH , MCBRIDE-SMITHFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint August House PublishersPublisher August House PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874409505Author L. M. MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Avenging Chicagoans form a league for justice in Ike Holter's superhero-inspired play, Prowess. In this heartfelt yet fantastical homage to Chicago, award-winning playwright Ike Holter introduces us to a quartet of "average" citizens who have been the...

The plays collected in this volume give artistic expression to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In so doing, they also illuminate many social, political, and environmental issues central to American life. Besides telling the kinds of stories...

This play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140029Author John GuareFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TBS The Book Service LtdPublisher TBS The Book Service LtdWeight(grams) 170g

Jane Haley is the punny voice of the comic strip "King Tot " a three-panel strip about a nine-year-old pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. Jane has just been nominated for the Chuckling Willow the single most important award for female cartoonists in New England...

Various m and f roles From the author of Cabo San Lucas, Waiting, and Truth be Told, comes six new one act plays about love and relationship. Perfect for any theatre. Included in this book are: The Man in the Grey Suit, Different, Red Roses, The Same...

Comedy / 3m, 2f, flexible casting, Actors will each play 18 to 32 characters On a simple stage, with the clock ticking in front of everyone's eyes, the cast speeds through all of Greek Mythology. Its funny, updated and made easy to understand. The Gods...

A theater lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important living playwrightsEdward Albee was a giant in American theater, in the same pantheon with Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and Tennessee Williams. His prolific career included...

Playwright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. His numerous accolades include a Guggenheim fellowship and four Obie Awards for his acting and writing, and most recently a...

A theater lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important living playwrightsEdward Albee was a giant in American theater, in the same pantheon with Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and Tennessee Williams. His prolific career included...

The Sixties, Center Stage offers rich insights into the innovative and provocative political underpinnings of mainstream and popular performances in the 1960s. While much critical attention has been focused on experimental and radical theater of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708503Author Audrey CefalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Before acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute became the creator and showrunner of Syfy's new hit series Van Helsing, he had already adapted Bram Stoker's Dracula for the stage-with a fierce female Van Helsing as the vampire hunter. In...

"He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist."-Mel Gussow, The New York Times This collection includes Albanian Softshoe, Mister Original Bugg, Cleveland, Bad Penny, Cellophane, Three Americanisms, Fnu Lnu, Girl Gone, Hypatia, The Sandalwood Box and Cat's...

Two plays by one of the top ten playwrights to watch and Best Provocative Playwright by the Village Voice.Book InformationISBN 9781555541507Author Thomas BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint PAJ Publications,U.S.Publisher PAJ Publications,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585672974Author Horton FooteFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint QuePublisher Macmillan Computer Publishing (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...

This volume includes The Mayor of Baltimore and its companion piece Anthem from Kristen Kosmas, whose writing invents its poetry from the blunt, the found, and the discarded. A coterie of friends and strangers gather to celebrate a modest electoral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468313963Author Peter ParnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 146mm...

Humana 2006: The Complete Plays collects all ten plays produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the 30th anniversary season of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The seven full-length plays and three ten-minute plays in this anthology...

This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in...

Things We Said Today features the scripts for Neil LaBute's groundbreaking Directv project 10x10-a series of short films written and directed by LaBute based on ten compelling original monologues, five each for men and women. Also included are five...

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087630342Author Monika DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Teacher Created Materials, IncPublisher Teacher Created Materials, IncWeight(grams)...

Winner of a 2015 Obie Award for PlaywritingMae has returned home to help her father while he undergoes treatment for cancer. But she needs a little help herself. She's just lost her boyfriend and her job. (It turns out there are consequences to dating...

In Pike St., the highly praised second play by New Yorker Nilaja Sun, creator of the solo show No Child . . . a Lower East Side family comes vividly to life. As a storm approaches, Evelyn is trying to assure the safety of her teenage daughter, Candi,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810123458Author Heather RaffoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 525g

Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet disability itself has no easily recognizable form. When...

"Love is love" but is navigating it any less complicated today? What does it mean to be in a committed relationship? Is monogamy just monotony? Told through interweaving glimpses into the life of an everyday couple unexpectedly confronted by a vicious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573701009Author Matthew Paul OlmosFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drama / 3m, 2f Steeped in the difficulty of reunification and reconciliation, American Hwangap tells the story of Min Suk Chun, who some 15 years earlier left his family in a West Texas suburb to return to his native Korea. On the occasion of his 60th...

Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women's drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was "The personal is the political." These autobiographical and...

In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac (also spelled Ponteach) led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power in the Great Lakes region. This event was immortalized in the play Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy,...

More Stately Mansions represents the first printing of the complete and unexpurgated version of Eugene O'Neill's play, prepared from the original typescript housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The sixth in a line...

In Teatrophy: Three More Plays, critically-acclaimed playwright/author/poet Peter Carlaftes offers a trio of brilliant and intense modern plays that inspire on both page and stage. In "Anti," Carlaftes explores a frightening future--in which government...

It's easy to dismiss the Holy Ghost People. They travel door-to-door in white sheets spouting pseudoscience about time travel, wormholes, and a new galactic gospel. Most of the town has already laughed them away. But when the Holy Ghost People start to...

In O'Neill's Shakespeare , Normand Berlin explores the relationship of William Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill through detailed, often surprising, intertextual readings of the two great playwrights' work. "Of course, it would have been impossible for...