"24 enriching, character-driven scenes. This entertaining collection of short plays will guide teens to make positive choices in their lives. Each selection presents a realistic scenario, followed by
‘Everybody just stared at them and loved them and wanted to be them – but nobody was.’Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs
In this riveting political drama, Sara, along with her German husband Kurt, returns to the opulent Washington DC mansion of her mother Fanny after years away in Europe. With Hitler and Mussolini assum
Faced with the toughest battle of his life, David Connor finds comfort in the conversation and gentle touch of a beautiful woman named Sarah. Unfortunately David and Sarah are both married to someone
"A surreal 90-minute reverie that's wistful, beautiful and perplexing, not unlike life. Surprise is a motif throughout Ruhl's plays and this is no exception." —Karen D'Souza, Mercury News"Wondrous. .
This is a pressed bruise. This is Greta Garbo's smile. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations is an imperfect chronicle of a life lived; a body pulled through time, encountering meteorological phen
"Drawing on the immediacy of overheard conversation, she has pioneered a style of theatre made to seem as untheatrical as possible, while using the tools of the stage to focus audience attention. . .
"The finest American author of his generation."—Sunday Mail"[David Mamet's] writing, like his life, brings an intellectual sensibility to a working-class world. Mamet employs Aristotle's rules of dram
Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else.In an unnamed American city, two
Claudette still can’t forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother moved from Jamaica t
Sit down, Daniel's going to tell you a story. On the weekend of January 10, 2004, American monologist Spalding Gray killed himself by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. That same we
Rick, Ted, Donnie, and Cameron are home for their fifteen-year college reunion; a great time to go out for a game of golf and catch up on each other’s lives. Unlike their college days, the conversatio
"When I first saw Norah and Amy's breathtaking performance I was speechless. Mouthpiece touches on every part of the female experience from birth to death using dance, music, and wicked humour with ju
Santa Claus tries to fulfill a child's special Christmas wish while his staff attempts to overcome a supply shortage at the North Pole. This is a laugh-filled holiday play innocent enough for the youn
"The play is steeped in a gentle lyricism we associate with nostalgic portraits of American youth. The tone, the setting, the characters seem at first so familiar, so, well, normal, that it's only by
This book provides an in-depth analysis of representations of female murderers in modern American drama. Paying close attention to the plays’ plot, form, and style, the study seeks to come to terms wi
When Eve Elliott, a beautiful Manhattan Advertising Executive, is suddenly widowed at age 36, her profound loss causes her great depression and she takes a leave of absence from her job to spend the s
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore. Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn’t pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, th
The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his Modernist intervention
A blend of theater and electro-pop music, this play progresses backwards from 2013 to 1893 in a relay race through time that illustrates the environmental consequences of our decisions.Chantal Bilodea
