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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Adapted into the Hit TV Series, Winner of Six 2019 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy SeriesCelebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition--featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen color photos, and exclusive bonus content by Phoebe, director Vicky Jones, and key members of the creative team.In 2013, Fleabag made its debut as a one-woman show in the sixty-seater venue the Big Belly, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's Underbelly. It was an immediate hit, going on to enjoy two runs at London's Soho Theatre, national and international tours, while picking up prizes including Critics' Circle, The Stage, Fringe First and two Off West End Theatre Awards, plus an Olivier Award nomination.The 2016 TV adaptation propelled Fleabag and Phoebe to worldwide fame, earning critical acclaim and further accolades including Writers' Guild, Royal Television Society and BAFTA Television Awards. A second season followed in 2019, winning an amazing six Emmy Awards, along with a sold-out run of the original play in New York.This special edition of the play is released alongside Fleabag's first West End run at Wyndham's Theatre, London. It is introduced by Deborah Frances-White, stand-up comedian, writer and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast. A special edition of the smash-hit play that inspired the Emmy-winning TV series. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Mans Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.The Washington PostRuhls zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.VarietySarah Ruhl is deliriously imaginative and fearless in her choice of subject matter. She is an original.Molly Smith, artistic director, Arena StageAn incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead manwith a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Mans Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the deadand how that remembering changes usit is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.Sarah Ruhls plays have been produced at theaters around the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others, and internationally. She is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The Clean House, 2004), the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers Award. The Clean House was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists. A new comedy by the author of The Clean House. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Heroes of the Fourth Turning received its world premiere Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in September 2019.Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a New York Times Critics Pick. NYT critics Ben Brantley and Jesse Green both named the play one of their top 10 shows of 2019.Heroes was also named one of the best plays of 2019 by New York Magazine and Time Out New York.TCG will also be publishing the script of Heroes in American Theatre magazines March 2020 issue.Will Arbery is the 2019/20 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights Horizons.Arberys other plays include Plano, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, and Wheelchair.Hes a member of The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, P73s Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and an alum of Clubbed Thumbs Early Career Writers Group.His plays have been developed at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, The Vineyard, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Cape Cod Theater Project, The New Group, EST/Youngblood, The Bushwick Starr, Alliance/Kendeda, and Tofte Lake Center.Arberys honors include a Tow Foundation Grant, an Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, and a Stage Raw Award for Best Playwriting. A haunting play about a group of young conservative Catholics in America encountering crises of confidence in faith, country, and self. A finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx. Prodigal Son is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath jokes and banter." -- Davide Cote, Time Out New York"Shanley chooses characters stretched to the breaking point between rage and love. His are characters of obsessive passions who match those passions with hyper-melodic language." --BOMB magazineWhen a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx arrives at a private school in New Hampshire, two faculty members wrestle with how to help him adjust to his new environment. The boy is violent, brilliant, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. As with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Doubt, John Patrick Shanley has drawn on his personal experiences to create an explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction.John Patrick Shanley is the author of Doubt, a parable (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play), Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination for Best Play), Defiance, Storefront Church, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Dirty Story, among many other plays. He wrote the teleplay for Live from Baghdad (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing of a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special) and the screenplays for Congo, Alive, Five Corners, Joe Versus the Volcano, Doubt, a parable (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Moonstruck (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay). A harrowing new coming-of-age tale from the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright of Doubt. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It took courage to do what Spalding didcourage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our heartsmy heartbecause he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.Eric BogosianVirtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous.The New York TimesIn 2004, we mourned the loss of one of Americas true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Grays legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Grays singular artistry.Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; Its a Slippery Slope; Grays Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme. Presents a soul-baring monologue inspired by "The Killing Fields". As well as offering an anatomy of South-East Asia, this book is laden with movie gossip. Names are dropped, marijuana is smoked, the bordellos of Bangkok are visited. But behind it all lies the genocide that claimed over two million lives under the Pol Pot regime. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Moss is the founder of Playwrights Horizons, one of the most influential theaters in New York He has also been Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca and Syracuse Stage He has directed at theaters around the country, including LORT, small professional theaters, and universities This book will be specifically appealing to theatre students and professors as the book shares essential knowledge for emerging directors. Wendy Dann is a playwright and director as well as an associate professor at Ithaca College. Dann received the 2013 NYFA Fellowship in Playwriting. Dann served as associate artistic director under Kevin Moriarty at the Hangar Theatre for seven seasons, and her regional directing work also includes Dallas Theatre Center, The Repertory Theatre at St. Louis, Alliance Theatre, Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Capitol Repertory Theatre, and the Kitchen Theatre Company. Dann's credits/works include: Directed and co-authored Sammy & Me , which had productions at Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA), The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY), MusicalFare Theatre (Buffalo, NY) and the National Black Theatre Festival. Her original play Birds of East Africa premiered at Kitchen Theatre Company in 2017. The Strangest Thing was a finalist for the 2010 and 2012 O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference. A resourceful guide for new and emerging directors that explores the fundamental elements for navigating the stage. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The eighth title in TCGs Classic Russian Drama seriesA great title for academic audiences and readers of classics especially for those studying Drama, Russian Literature, or European History.Richard Nelson is a Tony-award winning playwright and director.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are widely celebrated for their collaborative translations.Pevear and Volokhonskys translations have been nominated three times and twice won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov). Their translation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot also won the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize. Chekhov's character study of a man undone by his own spiritual malaise, in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Trouble in Mind was originally produced at the Greenwich Mews Theatre in New York City in 1955. The play won the Obie Award in 1956 for best original Off-Broadway production.Trouble in Mind was scheduled to move to Broadway in 1957, but (in a fairly ironic turn of events considering the content of the play) Childress objected to changes requested in the script that would sanitize the play for mainstream audiences and the production was canceled as a result.After decades as a little-produced play, Trouble in Mind has been rediscovered in recent years, with a resurgence of productions, including those at Two River Theater in New Jersey in 2014, The Artistic Home in Chicago in 2011, Theatricum Botanicum in California in 2017, Theatre Royal Bath in the UK in 2016, and Arena Stage in DC in 2011, among others.The play will finally receive its long-overdue Broadway debut this year, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company in the winter of 2021.There are also several upcoming productions of Trouble in Mind planned at major regional theaters around the country.Childresss other well-known works as a playwright include Wedding Band and Wine in the Wilderness.She also wrote adult and childrens novels, including the best-selling young-adult novel A Hero Aint Nothing but a Sandwich, which was adapted into a film in 1977.Her 1979 novel A Short Walk was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A radical satire of racism in theatre, widely considered the masterpiece of actress and playwright Alice Childress. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "A richly suggestive and beautifully written piece of work, provoking questions that will continue to nag and expand in your mind.The genius of the play is to embed its pressingly topical preoccupations in a humane, tragicomic scenario that is never, despite the circumstances, portentous or clangingly apocalyptic in tone.The Children consolidates my view that Kirkwood is the most rewarding dramatist of her generation." --Independent"Sly, gripping, darkly funny.This is sci-fi kitted out with real people, real dilemmas, real scope. It's really good." --The Times"Grips compulsively.Genuinely disturbing.Leaves you an abundance of ideas on which to ruminate." --Guardian"A far-reaching, unsettling play about legacy, survival and responsibility.Deceptively lightly written and often tartly funny.Kirkwood tackles huge themes and poses tough, even shocking questions, but weaves them into a droll script that both chastises and sympathises with her characters." --Financial Times"Retired people are like nuclear power stations. We like to live by the sea."Two retired nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request."At our time of life we simply cannot deal with this shit."Lucy Kirkwood's previous plays include Chimerica (winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play, the Evening Standard Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), small hours, NSFW, and it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now. The Children premiered at the Royal Court, London, and will receive its US premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in the fall of 2017. A shatteringly incisive new play about dealing with the consequences of both human connection and human ambition by award-winning playwright Lucy Kirkwood. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "The finest work yet from this gifted writer." The New York Times Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present. Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater. The stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set over the course of the Civil War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical!Now on Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo opened fall 2022 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway.Winner of Numerous Awards: Awards for Kimberly Akimbo include the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award.Reunites the Tony-nominated creators of Shrek The Musical: Lindsay-Abaire and Tesoris previous collaboration Shrek The Musical was nominated for numerous Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as the Grammy for Best Musical Show Album.Awards for Lindsay-Abaire and Tesori: David Lindsay-Abaire has won the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, The Horton Foote Prize, and The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. Tesori has won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and has been the composer of four other Tony-nominated musicals. She has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The hearwarming, Tony Award-winning musical about a young girl with a genetic condition that leaves her prematurely aged. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In his introduction, Christopher Bayes describes the pursuit of the clown as the search for "the authentic, playful self and its unique relationship to the comic world." An essential read for performers of all kinds, this text takes a deep dive into theatre, physical expression, and the limitless possibilities of the comic performance. This unique glimpse into the whimsical world of clowning includes helpful guides for movement, vocal exercise, and helping the "big stupid" in you find its full potential. Through the exploration of sound and gesture, Discovering the Clown, or The Funny Book of Good Acting expands the boundaries of typical performance, and promises to unleash the clown within any performer.Everybody has a clown in them. Thousands of characters can come from that clown. It's the playful self, the unsocialized self, the nave self. It's the big stupid who just wants to have some fun with the audience.Christopher Bayes runs The Funny School of Good Acting in Brooklyn, NY. He has taught programs at Juilliard, the Actor's Center, the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab, the Academy of Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theater, NYU, and Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently Professor and Head of Physical Acting at the Yale School of Drama. His honors include a Jerome Foundation Travel/Study Grant and both a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant. He is a 1999/2000 Fox Fellow.Virginia Scott specializes in developing, devising, and staging collaboratively created and physically oriented pieces for the theatre and the training of actors for this pursuit. Her work has been seen in New York at UCB, Ars Nova, 59E59, The Barrow Group Theatre, and the International Clown Festival. Virginia has taught Clown in New York at the Actor's Center, the Michael Howard Studios, CAP 21 and the Glass Contraption Clown Theatre Company. Virginia works closely with Christopher Bayes and is one of only a handful of teachers certified to teach his clown technique. A must-have guide for actors both young and old. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames'Fat Hamreinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.Finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.Juicy-a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity-is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man, trying to break a cycle of trauma and toxic masculinity, avenge his father's premature death?Fat Hamreinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, comic, inquisitive and finally optimistic theatre involving spectators and performers in the search for community and integrity. This is a good book to be used even more than to be read." - Richard Schechner"Augusto Boal's achievement is so remarkable, so original and so groundbreaking that I have no hesitation in describing the book as the most important theoretical work in the theatre in modern times - a statement I make with having suffered any memory lapse with respect to Stanislavsky, Artaud or Grotowski." - Goerge E. WellwarthOriginally basing himself at the Arena Stage in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Augusto Boal developed a series of imaginative theatre exercises which promote awareness of one's social situation and its limitations, individual attitudes, and even how our bodies are bound by tradition. Boal is continued his explorations in Paris, where he directed Le CEDITADE (Centre d'Etude et de Diffusion des Techniques Actives d'Expression - Methode Boal), in addition to traveling and lecturing extensively in other countries. On May 2, 2009, Boal died at age 78 in Rio de Janeiro. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika"Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork.Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions-power, religion, sex, responsibility, the future of the world-are as perilous, yet as falling-down funny, as ever." Linda Winer, Newsday"A vast, miraculous play. provocative, witty and deeply upsetting. a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama." - Frank Rich, New York Times"A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty." - John Lahr, New Yorker"An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theater stretched to its full potential can achieve." -Philadelphia Inquirer"Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory. It ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century." - John Heilpern, New York Observer"Some playwrights want to change the world. Some want to revolutionize theater. Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who has the promise to do both." -New York TimesThis new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has received hundreds of performances worldwide in more than twenty-six languages.Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Cornelle; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln. His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris. A revised and complete hardcover edition of this modern classic, featuring a new foreword from author Tony Kushner. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a cultural hero. What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970sthat's what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift. I know of no one else like him in pop culture right now." - Frank Rich, New York Times100 (monologues) collects all of Eric Bogosian's monologues, originally performed as part of his six off-Broadway solo shows, including Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Funhouse; Men Inside and selections from his play Talk Radio. For these solo shows, first performed between 1980 and 2000, Bogosian was awarded three Obie awards and a Drama Desk awardearning him living icon status in the downtown theater scene.One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist); subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, among many others. He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Complete and collected monologues by legendary playwright and performer Eric Bogosian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Tony Kushner's adaptation of A Dybbuk, perhaps the greatest classic of Yiddish drama, is passionate and illuminating." Clive Barnes, New York Post"Some playwrights want to change the world. Some want to revolutionize theater. Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who has the promise to do both." -New York Times"As filtered through Kushner, the play has a deep wistfulness about a flawed but rich culture on the precipice of apocalyptic change, about technology poised to tear through ancient truths and the seductions of assimilation ready to devastate whatever culture is left after the slaughters of the twentieth century." Linda Winer, NewsdayThe first part of the book features Tony Kushner's remarkable, imaginative adaptation of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky (from Joachim Neugroschel's translation), with an afterword by Harold Bloom. Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Also included in this volume is a selection of stories translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles. A stunning adaptation of S. Ansky's mystical dramatic legend The Dybbuk, accompanied by previously unpublished folklore. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English. James Wood, New YorkerBest known for his novel The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov had a knack for political allegory. Both Moliere, or the Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote were contentious in their time, written as a challenge to Soviet politics of the early twentieth century, especially Stalins harsh regime. Charged with cultural subtext and controversial intrigue, the plays in this exceptional new volume from TCGs Russian Drama Series are given new light by the foremost translators of Russian classic literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, in collaboration with renowned playwright Richard Nelson.Richard Nelsons many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry, Regular Singing); The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Oliver Award for Best Play); Frannys Way; Some Americans Abroad; Franks Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyces The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002 respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France. New translations of two poignant and controversial plays by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory."Entertainment Weekly"Fascinating and hilarious . . . With each of its three acts, Mr. Burns grows grander."Village Voice"When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin? . . . Mr. Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas . . . with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination."The New York TimesAn ode to live theater and the resilience of The Simpsons, Anne Washburn's apocalyptic comedy Mr. Burns"even better than its hype" (New York Post)is an imaginative exploration of how the culture of one generation can evolve into the mythology of the next. Following an enthusiastic critical reception from New York critics for its world premiere, Mr. Burns will receive its London premiere in spring 2014. Also included in the collection are The Small, I Have Loved Strangers, and 10 Out of 12, all of which, together, develop a theme of destruction, from the personal to the city to civilization and, finally, to the destruction of form.Anne Washburn's plays include The Internationalist, A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small, and a transadaptation of Euripides's Orestes. Her awards include a Guggenheim, NYFA Fellowship, Time Warner Fellowship, and a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist. She is a member of 13P, The Civilians, and is a New Georges affiliated artist. A downright brilliant (The New York Times) comedy by one of American theaters most original new voices. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form. And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and nationalities, they have an unyielding collective voice." - Nathalie Handal, from the IntroductionIncludes:Tennis in Nablus by Ismail KhalidiKeffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia TahaPlan D by Hannah KhalilHandala by Abdelfattah AbusrourTerritories by Betty Shamieh603 by Imad FarajinThe first collection of its kind, Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora brings together work by six dynamic Palestinian playwrights from both occupied Palestine and the Diaspora. These plays take on Palestinian history and culture with irreverence, humor and, above all, an electrifying creativity. This anthology is a vital contribution to world theater, introducing six politically, socially and culturally relevant plays by Palestinian authors.Naomi Wallace (editor) is an American playwright whose plays include One Flea Spare, The Fever Chart and The Liquid Plain. Ms. Wallace is a current Residency One playwright at Signature Theatre in New York. She divides her time between England and the U.S.Ismail Khalidi (editor) is a Palestinian American poet and playwright. His plays include Tennis in Nablus, Truth Serum Blues and Sabra Falling. Mr. Khalidi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and received his MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Chile. The premier collection of Palestinian plays. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Offers the chance to banquet on rich and delectable passions and ideas, washed down with lashings of wit. . . . Its big argumentative poetry screams out that history matters."The Nation"A brainy, brawny, thematically expansive work, stuffed with challenging sociopolitical ideas and dialectical fireworks. . . . Kushner's social engagement and his intellectualism are balanced, as always, by his penetrating humanism."Hollywood ReporterGus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family's Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, legendary playwright Tony Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions and debts both unpaid and unpayable. With sweeping themes as hefty as its title, "IHo" (as it has been nicknamed) explores the dense and vexing issues that stem from the betrayal of a failed ideology and the challenges of family connectedness. This cerebral mammoth of a play asks what is left when the long-held belief systems that construct and inform one's identity prove to be empty.An extraordinary play from the renowned author of Angels in America.Tony Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, among other honors. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. An extraordinary play from the renowned author of Angels in America. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book is a guide to one hundred plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire--to start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions. Above all, it is a call to arms--to step up, think big, and unleash theatre's power to imagine a better future into being.Each play is explored with an essay illuminating key themes in climate issues: Resources, Energy, Migration, Responsibility, Fightback, and Hope.100 Plays to Save the World is an empowering resource for theatre directors, producers, teachers, youth leaders, and writers looking for plays that speak to our present moment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living, Martyna Majok has quickly earned recognition for her ability to shine a light on individuals and communities who are traditionally underrepresented and overlooked. In this new collection, which includes her plays Ironbound, Sanctuary City, and queens, Majok tells the stories of those who would otherwise go unheard--stories about immigrant women and the challenges they face while trying to make it in America. Throughout the plays in the collection, Majok explores the vulnerability and entrapment of those who must climb out of poverty in order to survive. A collection of insightful, compelling plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Cost of Living. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Cho's playwriting style.lures us into caring about characters who never fail to surprise us with their simple humanity."-Los Angeles Times".a strength of Cho's writing is her empathy for those who stumble toward and slip away from intimacies they desperately covet-but aren't equipped to handle."-Seattle TimesFrom whimsical comedies to nail-biting chillers, Julia Cho is one of the most versatile playwrights in the contemporary theatre scene. For the past fifteen years, her stunning plays have been performed all over the country-from San Francisco to Off-Broadway-with one work premiering as far away as Japan. Her writing is at once touching and challenging, amusing and electric, and this new anthology contains a captivating sampling of her widely-lauded work. Five brilliant plays are included in this collection.Julia Cho's plays include Aubergine, Office Hour, The Language Archive, The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Winchester House, BFE, The Architecture of Loss and 99 Histories. She has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2004. Honors include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Barrie Stavis Award, the Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Durango was also named one of the Top 10 Plays of 2006 by Entertainment Weekly and one of the Best of 2007 by the L.A. Times.A collection of plays from the award-winning playwright Julia Cho The first collection by the widely-lauded playwright Julia Cho. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.