Drama

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by David Mamet (Author)Comic Drama Characters: 7 male 2 interior sets This scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream. Revived on Broadway in 2006 this masterpiece of American drama became a celebrated film which starred Al Paci...

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by Billy Van Zandt (Author), Jane Milmore (Author), William Van Zandt (Author)Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 3 female Scenery: Interior A cast of has been actors plan to revive their careers in Drop Dead , a potboiler murder mystery directed by "Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage" Victor Le Pewe (a psychotic eye twitching megalomaniac). At the dress rehearsal the set falls, props break, and the producer and an actor are murdered. During the opening night performance, the murders continue. The r...

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by Edmond Rostand (Author)Widely considered the most popular modern French play, Cyrano de Bergerac has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897.Cyrano, a quarrelsome, hot-tempered swordsman, as famous for his dueling skills and pugnacity as for his inordinately long nose, is hopelessly enamored of the beautiful Roxane. She, in turn, is in love with Christian, a handsome but inarticulate and slow-witted suitor. Asked for help by Christian in wooing Roxane, Cyran...

Talk about the Passion and Rattlesnakes - Paperback

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by Graham Farrow (Author)Two hard-hitting plays linked by the theme of retribution, exploring the media's fascination with serial killers, and the fall-out from infidelity in marriageTalk about the Passion: A young child is horrifically murdered; the autobiography of the serial killer is a hit publication. Jason Carroway is forced to endure the guilt at failing to protect his son and the subsequent media attention that accompanies the controversial release of the killer's autobiography. The p...

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by Tom Murphy (Author)"The most important and controversial work to be mounted by the National Theatre for many a year" (Irish Times) The Sanctuary Lamp is set in a church. "Murphy, in the best traditions of Bunuel, takes a hallowed institution and populates it with social misfits who desecrate every convention in both thought and action...Murphy's savage indignation is unbearably true..." (Irish Times)Author BiographyTom Murphy's work includes A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Morning After...

Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin - Paperback

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by Sarah Kane (Author)When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was hailed jointly as a masterpiece and a 'disgusting piece of filth' (Daily Mail). Subsequently that play, and the others that followed, have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes Kane's never-before-published Channel 4 screenplay, Skin."Kane wrote simply and starkly about the world she saw around her...a mature and vividly theatrical response to the pain of living." GuardianAuthor Biograp...

Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem - Paperback

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by Noel Coward (Author), Noal Coward (Author)The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill andversatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume containshis best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit whenit was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and reparteehave ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gaveme more complete satisfaction than anything else I...

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by Keith Hamilton Cobb (Author)The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order. Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of Shakespeare's character Othello, offering up a host of insights that are by turns introspective and indicting, difficult and deeply moving. American Moor is a play about r...

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by Harold Bloom (Author)From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff--Shakespeare's greatest enduring and complex comedic characters. Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays: H...

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Report copyright infringementby Davis (Author)The fortuneteller's warning echoes in Sam Parker's dreams. "Your soulmate waits for you, Sam, but beware, your destiny requires sacrifice. You'll be forced to choose." After events in college leave Sam struggling to provide his son a stable and loving childhood amidst his wife's battles with mental illness and addiction, the years blur before him. He finds no time for his once-cherished fantasies.When his son heads off to college, Sam retreats to ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Vengeance and War--Rome is in turmoil there is rioting in the streets and open warfare between the varying ruling factions. Coriolanus would bring peace and order to Rome but will Rome let him?You common cry of curs! whose breath I hateAs reek o' the rotten fens whose loves I prizeAs the dead carcases of unburied menThat do corrupt my air -I banish you. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN ...

The Pizzutos: A Novella Comedy of an Odd and Wacky Couple from Mamaroneck - Paperback

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by Franco Lamonica (Author)This book is a semibiographical novel of the Pizzutos, a unique and funny couple from Mamaroneck, New York. It recalls their lives and how close they always were in physical proximity from each other, until destiny united them in 1980.They side swiped each other at the fork of destiny's road and fused into the Pizzutos.Hysterically comical in parts, this book evolves into many separate recollections of what actually happened to them since they moved into the home th...

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by Oscar Wilde (Author)An Ideal Husband, by Wilde, Oscar - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - An Ideal Husband is Wilde, Oscar's comedy of enemies, friends, and the secrets that catch up to us sooner or later. Sir Robert Chiltern is a wealthy, respected Member of Parliament, and host of a Grosvenor Square dinner party. Unfortunately, dinner guest Mrs. Chevely knows how he got his money, and she doesn't like the Chilterns. Can Sir Robert survive a blackmail attempt with his career and mar...

Lobo: The Complete Dell Comics Collection - Paperback

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by Various (Author)Following the bloody climax of the American Civil War, a battle-fatigued soldier heads west in search of a more peaceful existence. Instead, he finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit! Now, the outlaw known only as LOBO must fight to clear his name, while bringing justice to a lawless frontier... Rarely seen during its original 1965-1966 run, Lucien Publishing is proud to present the complete collection of this groundbreaking Dell series, assembled into one value-...

The Game of Chess: A Play in One Act - Paperback

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by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman (Author)The book "" The Game of Chess: A Play in One Act, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 22 Dim...

Shakespeare's King Lear for Kids: 3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group Sizes - Paperback

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by Suzy Newman (Author), Ron Leishman (Illustrator), Shana Hallmeyer (Illustrator)Who will you be? King Lear? A mean daughter? The evil Edmund? The Fool ? King Lear like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 7-18+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play.King Lear for Kids is a play versatile enough for sibling fun, classes, drama groups, homeschool groups, or backyard performances. It's approp...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Innocence and Jealousy--Like Othello and The Winter's Tale Cymbeline deals with perceived betrayal and jealousy. Posthumus Leonatus loves Imogen daughter of Cymbeline the King of Britain. Cymbeline has forbidden their relationship and so Posthumus flees the country. In Italy he meets Iachimo who bets Posthumus that he can seduce Imogen. Posthumus accepts the bet and sets the events that will lead to tragedy into motion."No exorciser harm thee!Nor no witchcraft c...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Vengeance and War--Rome is in turmoil there is rioting in the streets and open warfare between the varying ruling factions. Coriolanus would bring peace and order to Rome but will Rome let him?You common cry of curs! whose breath I hateAs reek o' the rotten fens whose loves I prizeAs the dead carcases of unburied menThat do corrupt my air -I banish you. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 23...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Love and Longing--As You Like it is One of William Shakespeare's best known plays. Mistaken identities and gender disguise abound. Rosalind must flee from court when she angers her uncle who has usurped her father's throne. She disguises herself as a man and travels to the Forest of Arden where complicated love triangles arise and must be dealt with.All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances;And one...

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Don't Touch My Crown 2: Touch The Sky - Paperback

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by Charae Lewis (Author)"You're the last thing my heart expected." Sky was heartbroken by love and immobilized with pain. Being wounded by the man she called her husband had been a hard pill to swallow for Sky. She never anticipated seeing her husband give his hand in marriage to another woman. It took everything in her not to break down and wave the white flag. She wanted to fight for her union, but she quickly realized that it wasn't worth fighting for. With a shattered heart, Sky attempts ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Heather Hirschfeld (Editor), Philip Edwards (Editor)The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation of an ancient Nordic legend into a drama whose philosophical, psychological, political, and spiritual complexities have captivated audiences world-wide for over 400 years. Focusing on the ways in which Shakespeare re-imagined the revenge plot and its capacity to investigate th...

Anne of Green Gables (Non-Musical) - Paperback

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by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Author), L. M. Montgomery (Author), Sylvia Ashby (Adapted by)Characters: 9 Female, 7 Male, 12 actors, w/ doubling A refreshing, contemporary telling of the classic story. Stern Marilla and her warm-hearted brother Matthew hoped to adopt a boy to work on their farm. But the orphanage sends young, befreckled Anne by mistake, and their lives will never be the same. Her warmth and wit affects everyone around her - even, eventually, the cold Marilla We follow Anne through...

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by Helen Jerome (Author)Comedy / Characters: 10 male, 16 female Scenery: 3 interiorsA great success in New York and London. Mrs. Bennett is determination to get her daughters married. Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia are likely looking girls in a period when a woman's one possible career is matrimony. To be a wife was success. Anything else was failure. Jane and her Mr. Bingley and Lydia with her Mr. Wickham are quite content with things as they are, but not Elizabeth She actually refuses to marry ...

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by Annie Baker (Author), Anton Chekov (Based on a Play by)This intimate, immersive new adaptation of Chekhov's classic from critically-acclaimed playwright Annie Baker, author of Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, and The Flick, brings colloquial language to this internationaly beloved story of human relationships and yearning. Written with the "goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way the play sounded to Russian ears during the play's firs...

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by Anne Washburn (Author)Anne Washburn is the recipient of the 2015 Whiting Award for Drama Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tech. Around you, a company of 14 is engaged in the very peculiar-and peculiarly impossible-task of making a new play. You'll have a seat next to the sound designer as he mixes cues. You'll eavesdrop on backstage gossip as it happens over headset. You'll watch the director struggle to contain the uncontainable. Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns) took notes during her tech rehear...

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by Topher Payne (Author)It's 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There's just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other's partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two "A...

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by Lydia R. Diamond (Author)It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest; a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist, are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics. Number of Pages: 104 ...

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by Cicely Hamilton (Author)William - an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally published by Skeffington & Son. Described as 'a passionate assertion of the futility of war' by The Spectator, William - an Englishman won the first Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse Anglais prize in 1920. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.35...

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon - Paperback

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by Neil Simon (Author)This first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put his unique brand of comic genius on the American stage, and made him the most successful playwright of his generation. This volume includes: - Come Blow Your Horn- Barefoot in the Park- The Odd Couple- Plaza Suite- The Star-Spangled Girl- Promises, Promises- Last of the Red Hot Lover- And an Introduction by the author: "Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic" Neil Simon's mixture of ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Doomed Love--Mark Antony has given himself over to the love of Cleopatra ignoring his responsibilities to Rome. In his absence the city has suffered and petty squabbles have led to war. Despite wanting to stay by Cleopatra's side Antony must return to Rome even though it spells disaster for all involved.The barge she sat in like a burnished throne Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold;Purple the sails and so perfumed thatThe winds were love-sick with the...