 | The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: October 30, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women ...
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|  | Collected Plays of Edward Albee: 1958-1965
Release Date: December 18, 2007Overlook's three-volume Collected Plays of Edward Albeefinally brought together all of Albee's works for the first time.Now, asthe first book is released in paperback, the first stage of Albee's greatcareer will be brought in full to an even broader audience. The first volume of this three-volume collection contains the eight playswritten by Albee during his early years as a playwright, from 1958 through1965.Those range from the four brilliant one-act plays with which heexploded on the New York theater scene--The Zoo Story, The Death of BessieSmith, The Sandbox...
|  | Sons of the Prophet: A Play
Publication Date: October 31, 2012A 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 center is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury. As Joseph confronts his deteriorating health, he is also forced to face the death of his father, an ailing Uncle, and a desperate boss beset by her own tragedies. Deftly keeping its various storylines in careful balance, Karam’s play confronts, with abundant ...
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|  | Bash: three plays
Release Date: November 1, 1999A trio of brilliantly scathing plays by the renowned writer-director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. With the success of his first two films, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, writer-director Neil LaBute has been hailed as a first-rate dramatic talent with a caustic wit reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick. bash--a collection of three stunning one-act plays that mark LaBute's return to the New York stage after ten years--forms a trio of unforgettable personal accounts: in Medea Redux, a woman tells of her complex and ultima...
|  | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Publication Date: September 8, 1998In this exuberant comedy and original revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet -- Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and Desdemona, has a hand in saving them, and finds out what these women are about. In true Shakespearean spirit, Constance plunders the plays and creates something new, all the while engaging in a personal voyage of self-discovery. With an abundance of twists, fight...
|  | Stick Fly: A Play
Publication Date: December 17, 2008Two brothers see their weekend at the family home on Martha's Vineyard as a great opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper class African American parents. Instead, they stumble into a domestic powder keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy and adultery. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Justine Bateman, Dule Hill, Tinashe Kajese, Carl Lumbly, Terrell Tilford, Michole Briana White --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | The Diviners: A Play in Two Acts and Elegies
Publication Date: April 29, 2010Drama / 6m, 5f / Unit set w. platformsWinner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town d...
|  | A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Release Date: June 13, 1995By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry gave us an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice. These two plays remain milestones in the American theater, remarkab...
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