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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363440Author Craig LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

The Obie-winning play by the Tony-nominated playwright of A Doll's House, Part 2 Ray's swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he'll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he'll never need a real job. So,...

Lucas Hnath's darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney centers on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylized screenplay written by the great man himself, in the ultimate...

Since its inception in 1974, Canadian Theatre Review has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama. This volume brings...

At a dinner party in New Jersey two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp Pip in Jane's office. When they invite Pip and her two male partners discussion turns to action and the exploration of unexplored desire...

Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award winner Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) delivers the stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey set over the course of the Civil War.Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy Hero...

DramaCharacters: 3 males 2 femalesA Cool Dip offers glimpses into the lives of Abebe a young Ethopian man with a passion for the unlikely combination of Christianity and ecology and the family that houses himduring his college studies in Maryland...

Characters: 3 male 5 femaleComedy Interior The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Company has been sold and two of its vice presidents David McGrachen and John Baker have planned a weekend off before the new C.E.O. arrives on Monday. With their wives safely off...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573609725Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363907Author Jose RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362573Author Richard ForemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

2m, 4f / Farce Mrs. Stancliffe's Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her Guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued, Bud "Bud the Stud" Davis believes they come to...

Full Length / Comedic Mystery / 4m, 3f / Interior The year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the English Channel. The famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board...

Full Length / Characters: 5 male, 2 female, 3 children Scenery: Composite set This fresh approach to the classic tale faithfully conveys the magic of Dickens. On Christmas Eve in 1843 friends and family gathered at Dickens' home ask him to tell a story,...

In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy. My Sister's Keeper was first produced at the 1976 Lennoxville Festival in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874402995Author Ross MihalkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573701061Author Jessica DickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Comedy / Characters: 2m, 3f / "I've dreamed you for so long, I can hardly believe you're with me now. Yet here you are: a tiny human voyager, sleeping off the shock of migration..." The legendary Taj Mahal is the next assignment for Rachel, an American...

Breathless from running and staggered by a startling incident, Bailey Bryce dashes into a deserted bus depot in the dead of night desperately clutching a travel bag. He's glad to be alone; to think fast, to collect himself, to figure things out before...

Winner! 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright AwardFinalist! 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeNominee! 2013 Drama Desk Award Outstanding PlayYoung Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437865Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102g

This collection of seven darkly funny and mysterious plays includes the long one act Pirandello in which the great Italian playwright writing alone on the stage of his theatre late at night is interrupted by the Italian dictator Mussolini who wants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364140Author Eric BogosianFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an investigator of the Nether's online offerings, questions Mr. Sims about his...

Maytag Virginfollows Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor Jack Key over the year following the tragic death of Lizzy's husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment and the bridge between the two.Book...

Winner! 2011 Rella Lossy Playwright's AwardSet in a highly competitive architecture firm, What We're Up Against takes an explosive look at the complicated battle of the sexes raging across Cubicle Land. A funny yet insightful view of what it means to be...

Drama / Characters: 5m, 1f 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award - American Theater Critics Association 2008 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an Outstanding New Play - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2008 Production of the Year -...

Mae returns home to help take care of Dad and - maybe (a little) - herself. You Got Older is a tender and darkly comic new play about family illness and cowboys - and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.Book...

America s premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist not unlike Carole Bayer...

Comic drama Characters: 1 male, 6 female Unit set. Tood, Weetsie and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning...

3m 2f / Dark Comedy / Unit SetIn a suburban subdivision with identical houses parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to...