 | 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...
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|  | Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 (Softcover)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Series: Best American Short Plays (Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction toThe Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of p...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Desire Under The Elms by Eugene O'Neill
Publication Date: March 1, 2010Eben Cabot s future seemed assured when his mother, on her deathbed, secured her husband Ephraim s word that he would leave his fortune to her son. Ephraim gave his word, but the promise came at a price. Two sons from a previous marriage were cut out, making life in the Cabot household miserable while his dispossessed progeny hoped for a change of heart. But, when Ephraim brings home a new wife, Abbie, any plans Eben and his stepbrothers might have had for a carefree future grow dim. The brothers decide to depart for greener pastures; Eben s choice is to stay a...
|  | American Buffalo
Publication Date: January 11, 1994A classic tragedy, American Buffalo is a story of three men struggling in the pursuit of their distorted vision of the American Dream. By turns touching and cynical, poignant and violent, American Buffalo is a piercing story of how people can be corrupted into betraying their ideals and those they love. ...
|  | The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
Release Date: February 1, 2000(Applause Books). The complete script to the critically acclaimed play."Shakespeare as written byReader's Digest , acted by Monty Python, and performed at the speed of the minute waltz."L.A. Herald ...
|  | The Normal Heart
Publication Date: 1985Full Length, DramaCharacters: 8 male, 1 female Unit set. A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis.Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles,The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease."An angry, unremitting and gripping piece of political theatre."-New York Daily News "L...
|  | 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...
|  | Some Girl(s): A Play
Release Date: June 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0571229824 | ISBN-13: 978-0571229826| Edition: 1st Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side—so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already broken up with). Some Girl(s) is the latest work from Neil Labute, American theater's great agent pro...
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