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Hope and Joy & The Return

Ellie Stewart

Hope and Joy & The Return

Hope and Joy Hope’s labour is unusual and uneggspected. Happily, nothing fazes Joy, the hospital cleaner who helps her to escape. Then Joy is sacked from her job and she moves in with Hope and her swan-boy son, Magnus. Their lives collide in chaos – can they survive this shifting world?A deeply original play that explores love and loss in a changing environment, imagining Scotland in a time much like ours, but not quite. The Return France, 1560. In the foothills of the Pyrenees, Bertrande...

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Ellie Stewart

1 Law 4 All - Gator

Billy Angel

1 Law 4 All - Gator

Our '1 Law 4 All' gang is dragged into a complex multinational, election fraud scheme. The gang's client champions fair and free elections. The battle lines are drawn. The political windmills established. The 1 Law 4 All Foundation teams with a voter justice group to ensure no tampering with the coming national election, especially in Florida, gator country.<br><br>We begin with a small group of wealthy progressives. Their influence finds two corrupt...

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Billy Angel

Half Truths

Tracy Ann Rodriguez

Half Truths

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Tracy Ann Rodriguez

Britannicus

Jean Racine

Britannicus

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Molière and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is one of the best examples of such use noted for its harmony, simplicity and elegance. While critics over the centuries have debated the worth of Jean Racine, at present, he is widely considered a...

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Jean Racine

The Ecclesiazusae (Or Women In Coun...

Aristophanes

The Ecclesiazusae (Or Women In Council)

The 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council,' was not produced till twenty years after the preceding play, the 'Thesmophoriazusae' (at the Great Dionysia of 392 B.C.), but is conveniently classed with it as being also largely levelled against the fair sex. "It is a broad, but very amusing, satire upon those ideal republics, founded upon communistic principles, of which Plato's well-known treatise [‘The Republic’] is the best example.—From the introduction to ‘The...

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Aristophanes

The Gamblers and Marriage

Николай Гоголь

The Gamblers and Marriage

Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, the Molière of Russia, was born in the sunny Ukraine in March, 1809, and died in Moscow forty-three years later. The author of Russia's famous national comedy, «The Inspector-General,» Gogol was the first dramatist of his country to write plays on the Western European model, even as his friend Pushkin was the first Russian poet to introduce the Western strain into the literature of his people. In the comedy «Marriage,» which Gogol began in 1832 as «The Wooers»...

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Николай Гоголь

Ubu Roi, Ubu Cuckolded, and Ubu in...

Alfred Jarry

Ubu Roi, Ubu Cuckolded, and Ubu in Chains

Considered by some to have contributed to the birth of modernism, «Ubu Roi» is a comical play that is at once a wild and bizarre work which overturned the cultural rules, norms, and conventions of its day. A precursor to the «Theatre of the Absurd», the play satirizes the complacency, greed and abuse of power by the ruling class. In addition to «Ubu Roi,» Alfred Jarry wrote two sequels, «Ubu Cuckolded,» and «Ubu in Chains,» which were never performed in his lifetime. According to an essay...

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Alfred Jarry

The Devil is an Ass

Ben Jonson

The Devil is an Ass

Benjamin Jonson's career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in «The Admiral's Men», and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson had a literary knack for absurdity and hypocrisy, a trait that made him immensely popular in the 17th century Renaissance period. His works are particularly recognizable because of his consistencies in style, intricacy of plot, characterization and setting....

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Ben Jonson

The Thesmophoriazusae (Or The Women...

Aristophanes

The Thesmophoriazusae (Or The Women's Festival)

Like the 'Lysistrata,' the 'Thesmophoriazusae, or Women's Festival,' and the next following play, the 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council' are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part. In ‘The Thesmophoriazusae’ Euripides is summoned as a notorious woman-hater and detractor of the female sex to appear for trial and judgment before the women of Athens assembled to celebrate the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honour of the goddesses Demeter and...

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Aristophanes

Tragedies

Seneca

Tragedies

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known commonly as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is most noted for developing a new type of drama, the Senecan tragedy, which differed greatly from Greek tragedy. While the Greek tragedies were expansive and periodic, Senecan tragedies are more succinct and balanced. In Senecan tragedy, characters do not undergo much change, there is little or no catharsis in the end, and violence is acted out on...

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Seneca

Volpone, The Alchemist, and Other P...

Ben Jonson

Volpone, The Alchemist, and Other Plays

Benjamin Jonson was a Renaissance dramatist, poet, and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. Jonson focused on creating works that implemented elements of the realistic as well as the absurd. Jonson’s most performed play, and the one that sparked a period of great success for the playwright, is “Volpone, or The Fox”. Volpone, a Venetian con artist, is feigning to be on his death bed, pitting several aspirant heirs against one another. The dark comedy is as much serious as it...

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Ben Jonson

Berenice

Jean Racine

Berenice

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Jean Racine

Unique

T. Michael Miller

Unique

In a not-so-perfect world, Sharon Lordes is living in a not-so-perfect life. Being a single mother of two, she longs for a bit of happiness in her stressful life. So when she meets the man of her dreams, she becomes so lovestruck that she ignores all of her womanly intuitions. Having a teenage daughter in high school and a grown son who lives the life no mother wants for her son. Sharon Lordes asks no questions. Having a teenage daughter at home never crossed her mind when letting her new...

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T. Michael Miller

Never Quit Again

Shannon Metcalf

Never Quit Again

The human psyche is a remotely amazing, mostly strong, yet sometimes an incredibly fragile thing. The brain protects its host, like a parent does their child. But what’s to become of a child who’s brain seemingly abandoned all hope? Deceit, and rape lead Samantha Hive to a world she has never known. A world where there is more than one state of mind. The good and behaved; the confused and altered… The decrepit, and deadly. Karma has a sick sense of delivering its...

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Shannon Metcalf

Luna Park

Donald Margulies

Luna Park

* Author of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama * Dinner with Friends (1.55936.194.8, TCG)–5,000 copies sold since April 2000 * Sight Unseen and Other Plays (1.55936.103.4, TCG)–second printing over 4,000 copies sold *Collected Stories (1.55936.152.2, TCG)in its second printing over 3,000 copies sold *HBO movie of Dinner with Friends scheduled for 2001 with Andie McDowell, Dennis Quaid, and Greg Kinnear

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Donald Margulies

Rodney's Wife

Richard Nelson

Rodney's Wife

*Just appointed Chair of the Playwrighting Program at the Yale School of Drama

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Richard Nelson

Stunning and Other Plays

David Adjmi

Stunning and Other Plays

– Most recent play produced at Lincoln Center Theatre in NY. – Recent feature article in the «New Yorker» (6.28.09) – Originaly premeired at the Woolly Mammoth in Wahshington D.C.

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David Adjmi

The Great God Pan

Amy Herzog

The Great God Pan

"The Great God Pan is a haunting, deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology and pathology. Ms. Herzog writes with keen sensitivity to the complex weave of feelings embedded in all human relationships, with particular attention to the way we tiptoe around areas of radioactive emotion." – New York Times"Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan. It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly...

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Amy Herzog

The Manifestos and Essays

Richard Foreman

The Manifestos and Essays

"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print along with two recent interviews, provide a fascinating window into Richard Foreman's singular mind and creative process. Also included is The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), his last play...

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Richard Foreman

Dirty Story and Other Plays

John Patrick Shanley

Dirty Story and Other Plays

“In the appallingly entertaining Dirty Story . . . Mr. Shanley has expanded his focus from the intimate to the international to create one of the liveliest, boldest and—against the odds—funniest studies ever of a subject that even hard-core satirists tend to approach on tiptoe.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times Three new works by Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Patrick Shanley, one of our country’s most politically...

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John Patrick Shanley

In the Wake

Lisa Kron

In the Wake

"Funny, moving, and undeniably sexy. The heady blend of smart dialogue and characters. . .makes it a candidate to be the Angels in America of the Bush II decade."San Francisco Chronicle "The two works [Angels in America and In the Wake] use a volatile chapter in American history as background in their exploration of how the sociopolitical maladies of an age play out in the personal conduct of characters." Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Lisa Kron, author of...

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Lisa Kron

Intimacy and Other Plays

Thomas Bradshaw

Intimacy and Other Plays

"Bradshaw has proved in play after play that he has a confident vision of the theater that is his own. The politically incorrect plots jump merrily from one outrage to another, never pausing to explain motivation or linger on subtext. His dramas ask: What would happen if every dark urge, lingering resentment and unedited ugly insult that popped into your head came spilling out of your mouth? . . . No playwright applies as ruthlessly Hitchcock's definition of drama as 'life with...

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Thomas Bradshaw

Bone Songs

André Gregory

Bone Songs

*Andre Gregory co-author with Wallace Shawn of «My Dinner With Andre» directed by Louis Malle *This year long exploration of Chekhov subject of 1994 film «Vanya on 42nd St» directed by Louis Malle

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André Gregory

Well

Lisa Kron

Well

The acclaimed writer and performer Lisa Kron’s newest work is all about her mom. It explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of her mother’s extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself. In this solo show with other people in it, Kron asks the provocative question: Are we responsible for our own illness? But the answers she gets are much more complicated than she bargained for when the play spins...

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Lisa Kron

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