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Guild Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus

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Best American Short Plays 1995-97

A. R. Gurney

The Old Boy

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Tom Dudzick

"Bah humbug" best describes Christmas this year at the Gorskis'. Phil's diatribes against the loss of traditional values and the mysterious and menacing "them out there." Their older son Andy is on his way home, dreading the introduction of his parents--staunch Catholics--to his fiancée Randi, a confirmed atheist. The only person honestly looking forward to the holiday is Mickey, Andy's younger brother, who's never outgrown a childlike delight in the season. Micky is retarded."--Publisher's description."

Greetings!

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Sight Unseen

Characteristic of Gurney's inimitable style of intertwining the present with the past, this lovely play (set primarily in the elegant ballroom of the old George Washington Hotel and performed to recorded music) poses a most poignant question: Is recapturing the qualities of grace, beauty, and cibility too painful for today's society; when charm and elegance no longer seem desirable or important? For one fleeting winter's night, Cooper Jones reunites a group of old...

The Snow Ball

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Jean Cocteau

Jeremy Sams

Written in eight opium-sodden days, Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles is a frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems. The play was first performed at the Théâtre des Ambassadeurs, Paris, in November 1938. Its run was soon terminated amid accusations of immorality, and the production was transferred to the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in January 1939, where it continued until the outbreak of World War II. This English version by Jeremy Sams was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1994, directed by Sean Mathias. This edition of the play includes an introduction by Simon Callow.

Les Parents Terribles

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The Last Yankee & Broken Glass

Richard Nelson

'The barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass.' An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humour and irony as well as the sense of loss and longing permeate this story of exiles unable to address a world that is passing by.

New England

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David Hare

In conflict with government, torn with internal dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, the Church of England finds itself enjoying unwelcome publicity. David Hare's play, which details the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission in South London, opened to universal acclaim.

Racing Demon

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John Marans

This play tells the story of Stephen Hoffman, an American piano prodigy desperate to regain his waning creative spark. He travels to Vienna, where he studies under the forced tutelage of an old and eccentric vocal professor. The two could not be more different - one is European, the other American; one passionate; the other technical; and one an anti-Semite and the other, a Jew. What follows is a game of trading challenges, tirades, and insults revealing both the sinister and the noble sides of each man.

Old Wicked Songs

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo

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The Substance of Fire & The Film Society 

Taking Sides

Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years. This is the definitive edition of Skylight.

Skylight

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A Play

Easter Standard

The Dying Gaul

Sebastian Barry

Set in Ireland in the 1890s, the play follows its heorine in her uneasy transition from English seaside music-hall star to Anglo-Irish lady.

Barry Three Plays

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Anton Chekov

Lanford Wilson

Tri Sewiry

One of Chekhov's most powerful plays probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape.

The Three Sisters

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Timberlake Wertenbaker

Pierre De Marivaux

False Admissions; the Dispute; Successful Strategies

The range of Marivaux's work and the subtlety beneath its apparent frivolity are demonstrated here by two of his most famous plays: 'Les Fausses Confidences' (False Admissions) and 'L'Heureux Stratageme' (Successful Strategies). Love is the subject of both plays, with underlying themes of deceit and self-delusion. The former play deals with social mobility and the power of money, while the latter, lighter in tone, takes place on a country estate with a cast of aristocrats and their servants. Both plays had their British premier in this translation at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith in 1983. This collection also includes 'La Dispute,' an intriguing one-act piece, first produced in this translation on BBC Radio...Amazon.com.

Marivaux: Three Plays

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John Guare

In the stunningly inventive new play by the author of Six Degrees of Separation, the island of Sicily becomes the setting for a drama enacting passions as ancient as a buried civilization and as catastrophic as an earthquake. This volume also contains seven short plays, including Muzeeka, The Talking Dog, and New York Actor.

Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays

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Horton Foote

Getting Frankie Married and Afterwards and Other Plays

A collection of six plays by Horton Foote.

Horton Foote Collected Plays

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Pam Gems

Stanley Spencer is the wayward genius of modern British painting. Coming from humble origins, he never lost his 'rough edges' despite being taken up by the smart set. His stubborn championing of ordinary people and local places as suitable subjects for religious painting was revolutionary. His appetite for life was hugely attractive, though his attitude to women in general and his long-suffering wife in particular was deeply selfish: 'Why can't I have two wives if that's what I need?'. Premiered at the Royal National Theatre with Antony Sher as Spencer, Stanley is a brilliant and painfully truthful re-creation of the man and his milieu.

Stanley

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Robyn Goodman

The Best Plays of 1992

Women Playwrights

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Guild Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus

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Best American Short Plays 1995-97

A. R. Gurney

The Old Boy

Tom Dudzick

Greetings!

Donald Margulies

Sight Unseen

A. R. Gurney

The Snow Ball

Jean Cocteau; Jeremy Sams

Les Parents Terribles

Arthur Miller

The Last Yankee & Broken Glass

Richard Nelson

New England

David Hare

Racing Demon

John Marans

Old Wicked Songs

Alfred Uhry

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Jon Robin Baitz

The Substance of Fire & The Film Society

Ronald Harwood

Taking Sides

David Hare

Skylight

Richard Greensberg

Easter Standard

Craig Lucas

The Dying Gaul

Sebastian Barry

Barry Three Plays

Anton Chekov; Lanford Wilson

The Three Sisters

Timberlake Wertenbaker; Pierre De Marivaux

Marivaux: Three Plays

John Guare

Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays

Horton Foote

Horton Foote Collected Plays

Pam Gems

Stanley

Robyn Goodman

Women Playwrights