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Righteously angry, riotously funny, and wise to the tensions between abstract policy and lived experience, Ike Holter's play Exit Strategy centers on vivid, unforgettable characters struggling to maintain faith in a vocation that is being determinedly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634054488Author Paul McKibbinsPage Count 80Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933826212Author Daniel GerouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)...

A comedy set in Winnipeg during the 1919 General Strike, Striker Schneiderman was first presented in 1970 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto. Its protagonist, Moische Schneiderman, is a tailor whose possessions include a small business, a...

Plays by Early American Women: 1775-1850 provides a comprehensive view of American women's engagement with drama. Standard histories and anthologies of American theater and drama have paid scant attention to women although they actively participated in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888451856Author Arthur NersesianFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 239g

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical...

It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German...

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'. For the first time,...

This is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to playwriting, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of...

Why Athena?I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and all that.In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle.Athena and Mary Wallace are training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together. They compete against each...

The first collection of plays from a major American playwright, Plays One includes: Photograph 51, A Delicate Ship, Boy and The Last Match Photograph 51: Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573694141Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300191Author David BelkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 138g

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMARecently revived on Broadway in a production directed by Joe Mantello, starring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson and Tony winner Laurie MetcalfEarning a Pulitzer and Best Play awards from the Evening Standard,...

A new collection from one of America's leading avant-garde playwrightsKnown for his verbal invention and radical experimentation, Mac Wellman is one of America's most original and essential dramatists. Since seizing the spotlight with 7 Blowjobs in the...

In The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centers around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her...

For nearly twenty years playwright Lauren Yee's father Larry has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American men's club formed a hundred fifty years ago in the wake of the Gold Rush and the building of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734513585Author Stephen EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Time Being Media, LLCPublisher Time Being Media, LLCWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

Showcases a selection of award-winning African American drama. The seven plays represent a wide range of talents, experience and perspectives brought to bear on diverse themes, from a unique moment in the history of baseball's Negro League to a...

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...

In her latest theatrical production inspired by a classic story, Mary Zimmerman reimagines The White Snake, an ancient Chinese legend in which a snake spirit transforms herself into a beautiful woman in order to experience the human world. Adventuring...

The difference between belief and knowledge and the consequences of mistaking one for the other are at the heart of Craig Wright's play Grace. An evangelical Christian couple, Sara and Steve, leave a dreary life in Minnesota for sunny Florida and the...

Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty's busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she's never examined. Five different women named...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692317716Author Shawn PfautschFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Sordelet InkPublisher Sordelet InkWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364942Author David AdjmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Ike Holter's Sender thrives on the contrast between order and chaos and the tensions that emerge as we leave childhood and adolescence behind to contend with the demands of "adulting." In this comedy, Holter presents us with four millennial friends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771862110Author Veronique CoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka Books

The Hummingbird Hotel, just outside New Orleans, is the spiritual - and, to some, literal - home of a group of friends comprised of con artists, strippers, prostitutes, and armchair philosophers. Thinking her funeral will be a party she would rather not...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script 2009 and Governor General's Literary Award for Drama 2009 and Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original...

Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel...

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico. This book, a critical edition of a previously...

Carl Djerassi is one of the 'the fathers of the Pill' - he was awarded the National Medal of Science for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive - and has had a prolific additional career as a writer of fiction, plays, and dialogues about...

When Lucia a Mexican-born novelist gets her first TV writing job she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia...

A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play's centre is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner...

This year's edition in our Exceptional Monologues series features a wide range of selections from some of our most recent publications. Hand selected by the Samuel French editorial staff and complete with play and scene synopses to help contextualize the...

Drama / Characters: 3 male Scenery: Interior Best American Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award during the 1976-77 season, this volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385283861Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

In this vivid new adaptation of Jane Austen's first published novel we meet the Dashwood sisters whose happy lives are dramatically changed in the wake of their father's death. Their home is taken by their half-brother and his overbearing wife and they...