In these two moving early plays, Mamet displays the humor, sensitivity, and ear for language that have made him one of the most celebrated playwrights in American theater today.
In Purple Heart, a mysterious visitor arrives at the midwestern home that a Vietnam War widow, deep into drink, shares with her twelve-year-old son and her intrusive mother-in-law. And in The Infidel
Stanislawa Przybyszewski is recognized as a major twentieth-century playwright on the basis of her trilogy about the French Revolution, of which The Danton Case and Thermidor are the principal parts.
'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?'Roger th
Buggy Baby is a horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal.Jaden, Nur and baby Aya have escaped another country and ended up in a rotting room in London. While
In Comment Is Free, a journalist forms the center of a devastating media storm. After being staged by Old Vic New Voices in 2015, the version published here was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016, winni
Carlo Goldoni, the Venetian dramatist and librettist, lent new direction and subtlety to the stock characteristics of the commedia dell'arte tradition. The Venetian Twins is a classic tale of mistaken
This collection, translated by Lionel Casson, includes three plays by the classic Latin writer Plautus: The Menaechmus, Pseudolus, and The Rope. The plays in this book are arranged alphabetically by t
