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The Ballad of Moon Bog: Haunted Poems & Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Swartley (Author)Welcome to Moon Bog, where the light is always wrong, and the witch can sing anyone to sleep. This collection of poems, plays, and illustrations explores the porous boundaries between nature, culture, folklore, and dreams.You'll get lost in Moon Bog, but whether you stay that way is up to you. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Fabrice Melquiot (Author)Drama. Translated from the French by Ben Yalom and Michelle Haner. THE DEVIL ON ALL SIDES is the play that brought Melquiot to prominence. Set in the war in ex-Yugoslavia, it tells the story of Lorko Ljevic, a young Serbian man, his wife Elma, a Bosnian, and their family. As the world around them is torn apart, they struggle to maintain humanity and beauty in the midst of internecine violence and degradation. To tell this story, Melquio...

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Report copyright infringementby Len Jenkin (Author)Coconut Joe is looking for the perfect consignment of coconuts for the biscuit factory he works for. His search has taken him to Berlin, where he is double crossed by a beautiful woman and ends up as a prisoner in a nuclear waste plant. He escapes and makes his way to Venice. He boards a ship but it sinks. But Joe manages to escape on a life raft with a Pirate Queen. They are washed up on an island and end up in a hotel that is full of down a...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherry Kramer (Author)There is a rule in book conservation: You must never do something perfect. Perfection is forgery. Once a book is torn, the tear cannot be erased. Joan dreams of the man who will erase all her imperfections, even though she's sure that's against all the rules of love, too. She decides to fall for a seductive psychopath who she knows can make her perfect - but she doesn't know the price she will have to pay. "WHAT A MAN WEIGHS is a contempor...

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Report copyright infringementby Y. York (Author)Joanie wants recognition for her paintings; her crime-boss husband, Nick, can ensure that she gets it. Slut-shirt May wants to learn how to paint so she can have a picture of her dead mother; her mechanic husband, Jake, wants to elevate himself to crime thug so that May will respect him. Nick just wants Joanie to love him the way he deserves ... Two men, two women, two loopy marriages, some paintings, and some crime collide in this comedy about ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Wiltse (Author)Crazy Horse, the Sioux leader, engages General Crook, Indian fighter, in a confrontation that results in the death of Crazy Horse. The critics on David Wiltse's plays: THE GOOD GERMAN: "David Wiltse's THE GOOD GERMAN, which made its New Jersey premiere last week at the Madison theater, is an extraordinary piece of writing ... Simply put, it's best play I've ever seen there and quite certainly the most powerful drama seen in North Jersey all...

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Report copyright infringementby Solomon C. a. Awuzie (Author)The Last Revolution is a recreation of the first Nigerian coup into a play of warning. Through the play, it is made known that Nigeria is dri ing towards the same corruption that gave birth to the first coup. With fascinating and appealing expressions, Awuzie gives the coup a vivid account. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: September 21, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)This stark, disquieting drama depicts the eleventh-hour effort of a hired tutor to transform the life of a very bright, self-destructive teenager before a Columbine tragedy occurs in San Diego. "... the disquieting drama visits a shockingly dysfunctional family and its truly troubled teen ... The tables turn several times in this intense, suspenseful one-act ... Especially intriguing is the fact that we never quite know at the end what reall...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Ibsen (Author), Richard Nelson (Adapted by)In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the Ekdal family. Their peaceful lives are turned upside down when an idealistic family friend arrives. When the secrets unravel, powerful questions are revealed. From Richard Nelson's Introduction: "THE WILD DUCK is a play about family life twisted, bent, and knotted ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Giardina (Author)At an elite women's college in Massachusetts, two minor crises emerge during the fall semester: the philandering head of the English Department decides to callously end his affair with a colleague, and an aging professor is caught making unwanted sexual advances toward a student. But in the academic world of the early 21st century, there is no such thing as a minor crisis. For Jacob Freundlich, an English professor approaching middle ag...

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Report copyright infringementby Y. York (Author)Four middle-school girls, played by adults, remind us of what it meant to be eleven years old and how adulthood is perhaps less removed from the needs and desires of childhood than we may wish to acknowledge or admit. "Why would adults go to see a play about eleven-year-olds? Possibly because none of us ever really stop being eleven. Y York's new drama, BLEACHERS IN THE SUN, holds a mirror up to grown-ups to darkly illuminate the world of modern...

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Report copyright infringementby Len Jenkin (Author), Franz Kafka (Based on a Book by)Len Jenkin's surrealistic comedy uses Franz Kafka's story "Ein Landarzt" as a point of departure to explore his personal life and literary works. "The central journey in A COUNTRY DOCTOR - Kafka's physician anxiously pushing through a raging blizzard to reach a dying patient - keeps overtaking the other travelers, giving them nightmares. The visceral treats of the piece are many and fine. Makes you want to st...

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Report copyright infringementby Rogelio Martinez (Author)Cuba. Two brothers, both writers, meet again after a long absence. What follows is a fierce and hilarious fight to determine who has the right to tell the family's story. In the middle of this is a mysterious sister whose needs, like the country she lives in, seem to have been neglected. "Both [brothers] are successful writers. And both are, as the play jokes about at the start, whores. The play lays out the compromises artists make in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Pelfrey (Author)On a rainy night in Los Angeles, a young couple get an abrupt visit from two old friends. But they're not stopping by for pleasure but to warn them that someone, or something, from their past is coming for them all ... "David Lynch, Amy Tan and The Man Show collide in FREAK STORM ... Matt Pelfrey's new one-act about the inscrutability of those we love juggles macabre comedy, relationship drama and political incorrectness ... Pelfrey is unde...

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Report copyright infringementby Mia McCullough (Author)TAKING CARE chronicles the last years of an elderly woman and the mentally ill adult son who has lived with her for almost three decades. Stuck in a cramped, one-bedroom apartment, Ma and Benny have spent much of the past thirty years pretending the other wasn't there. Now that the old woman is more or less house-bound, she foists conversation upon her unwilling son and threatens to institutionalize him if he doesn't clean up his act and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Freed (Author)The year is 2010, the place an elite psychiatric clinic, the Patient #1 is - the ex-president, George W Bush! "Donald Freed is a writer of blazing imagination, courage and insight. His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art. I take my hat off to him." -Harold Pinter "The play's unapologetically political author, Donald Freed, has made a career of hunting out horror as well as humanity in an age that seems bent on self-de...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Pelfrey (Author)How far would YOU go to defend your family? AN IMPENDING RUPTURE OF the BELLY concerns Clay Stilts' desire to fortify his house in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. Clay worries about so many things, nuclear terrorism, avian bird flu, killer earthquakes, riots, small pox crop dusters flying over Dodger Stadium. His obsessions are sidetracked when a slowly escalating battle with a ne...

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Report copyright infringementby Mia McCullough (Author)The brain of a famous alcoholic/diabetic artist with a deteriorating body is transplanted into the vegetative body of a pro-golfer. When the Patient wakens from his surgery, he must not only figure out how to eat, talk, walk, and paint again, but he must navigate through a deluge of memories that no longer feel like they happened to him. "A fantastic dramatic vehicle - one that poses complex questions about the relationship between mind a...

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Marie Myatt (Author)The story of one woman's search for sexual abuse in her past. "Myatt's tale [is] a journey into childhood secrets and family dysfunction. Mary lives in Chicago and works as a bank teller. She has an appetite for sexual encounters but none for intimacy. Her behavior plagues and bewilders her, so she sets out to uncover whatever dark secrets are haunting her and causing her to act out. Mary returns to her family for a surprise visit, whe...

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Report copyright infringementby Brett Neveu (Author)An audacious and dark comedy about a ten-year reunion of a son's high school graduation that coincides with the one-year anniversary of the next-door neighbor's death. About the playwright: "Perhaps the city's closest equivalent to a young [David] Mamet." -Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune "One of the most prolific, intelligent, and innovative playwrights to write in Chicago in years, maybe decades." -Jack Helbig, PerformInk "The bard of midw...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Bentley (Author)Eric Bentley's gay adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE set in 1970's New York. "This masterly transposition of the gaiety of Schnitzler's Vienna into the tragic-comic gay life of New York shows us the foibles of our universal search beyond the thrill of encounter, towards the vision of pure love. So many-faceted that everyone will laugh a little, and identify a little. And there's sure to be controversy among those who insist on an e...

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Klein (Author)Dating on the job and Internet dating - both exciting and risky. But mix the two together - WOW! A dark comedy. "Klein is a proven talent with an inarguable comic facility and a knack for sparkling one liners. You'll find much to entertain in this ... funny endeavor." -Los Angeles Times "In Jon Klein's dark comedy, three young stockbrokers play out a lethally competitive erotic triangle. Chad seems at first to be merely a boorish seducer but s...

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Drake Johnson (Author)Most of this play takes place in a nursing home where a disgruntled, flamboyant, elderly mother is recovering from a bad fall. With her middle-aged, recently divorced daughter by her side, she awaits the arrival of her long-estranged gay son who is bringing his lover for a brief tour of his hometown and his damaging past. "Joel Drake Johnson's new play is a sensitively written ... portrait of a fragmented family ... Johnson balances g...

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Report copyright infringementby John Strand (Author)A dark comedy set in present-day Washington, D.C. Francis was a brilliant political staffer who suffered a mental breakdown, convinced he was Abraham Lincoln. He now works as a janitor in various D.C. buildings, and attends therapy, but still sometimes wanders off and makes rousing public speeches. He is kept from being forcibly confined to an institution only by the efforts of his brother, a harried political speechwriter struggling to help...

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Report copyright infringementby John Fisher (Author)A comedy with songs about students falling in and out of love. "Well-crafted and poignant. JOY is entertainment done with style!" -Variety "Positively giddy in its imaginative flourishes!" -New York Post "JOY takes audiences on an effervescently romantic ride!" -Backstage "Witty, wry, tightly constructed and surprisingly affecting! John Fisher has a flair for dialogue and a gift for narrative." -Associated Press "A sweet/sharp roundelay char...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Gurney (Author)POST MORTEM is set in the not-too-distant future when the Christian Right holds power. Alice, a lowly lecturer in drama at a faith-based state university in the Midwest, and Dexter, an enthusiastic student more interested in his teacher than the theatre, become embroiled in the discovery of a play by an obscure late 20th century playwright named A R Gurney. When the authorities destroy the script, these two must piece together the play and ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Misto (Author)Some fairies should stay at the bottom of the garden. It began as an innocent game. In 1917, two young British girls experiment with a camera and capture images of themselves with dancing fairies. They are playing a joke - but no one is laughing.Their photographs attract the attention of the two most famous men in the world - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.Here at last is proof that the spirit world exists. In an England devastated ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Jason Stafford (Author)Picture the young George Bernard Shaw spending long days in the Reading Room of the British Museum, pursuing a self-taught education, all the while longing for the green landscapes of his native Ireland. It is no coincidence that gardens and libraries often set the scene for Shaw's plays, yet scholars have seldom drawn attention to the fact until now.Exposing the subtle interplay of these two settings as a key pattern throughout Shaw...

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Report copyright infringementby Jose Rivera (Author)In the Bolivian jungle, Che Guevara is captured and held in a one-room schoolhouse. For two days neither the Bolivian President nor the U.S. State Department is able to decide Che's fate. The young schoolteacher of the village insists that she be given permission to speak to the famous revolutionary. Her conversations with Che - based on historical fact - are the heart of the play. "José Rivera's SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS traces the last two da...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Sanchez (Author)Ralphy, a young gay man, is dying of AIDS and vents his rage on his parents. He leaves and hitch-hikes across America sending his parents a constant stream of abusive and angry letters. All the while he is getting sicker. At home his mother and father have to face hard truths about their son and their now sexless marriage. Decent people trying to do the right thing, they do not understand their son's attitude toward them. When they discove...

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Report copyright infringementby Tammy Ryan (Author)Susan is a career woman with a seemingly perfect life, complete with sensitive husband and a brand new bundle of joy on the way. Beginning at the moment a very pregnant Susan goes into labor, the play follows her journey as she becomes a new mother, with a frighteningly inexplicable newborn to care for. Employing both realistic and surrealistic elements, BABY'S BLUES explores one woman's descent into postpartum depression, but also brings int...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Sunde (Author)Set in South Lebanon, HOW HIS BRIDE CAME TO ABRAHAM is a soaring love story. When a fleeing refugee encounters a soldier wounded by a roadside bomb, irresistible Palestinian and Israeli characters clash, then ignite a passion that heals. "One of the most powerful antiwar plays ever penned ... this life-altering script." -Plays International, London "Sunde's timely, gripping, and richly magical play ... this modern day ROMEO AND JULIET ... an...