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The Rogues' Trial by Ariano Suassuna
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Crimes of John Cricket and Other Rogues; Their Trial, and the Intercession of Mary, Our Lady of Mercy. A Satire on Human Frailties in the Form of a Miracle Play Based on Ballads and Folk Tales of Northeastern Brazil... -
![Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad]()
Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
![Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan]()
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy.So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. Everything that's worth living for.1. Ice Cream2. Kung Fu Movies3. Burning Things4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose5. Construction cranes6. MeYou leave it on her pillow... -
![Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal]()
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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![Pop Smoke by Giulia Lagomarsino]()
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![Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins]()
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours... -
![Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra]()
Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century... -
![Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein]()
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, PlaysTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s... -
![Assassins by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman]()
Assassins by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvoking a fraternity of political assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history, Sondheim and Weidman daringly examine success, failure and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. "Dark, demented humor, as horrifying as it is hilarious... -
![Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett]()
Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity... -
![The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Μάρτιν ΜακΝτόνα]()
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Μάρτιν ΜακΝτόνα
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of revenge... -
![McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh]()
McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s... -
![Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс]()
Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdition in Russian and English... -
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![The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig]()
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music.'You shouldn't miss this for the world . . . Rambunctiously life-affirming and touchingly beautiful... -
![Suddenly More by JA Low]()
Suddenly More by JA Low
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Dirty Texas Novella He was everything she was looking for... Sienna Hayes wasn’t looking for love, especially not with ladies man, Evan Wyld, guitarist for Dirty Texas. Not until she found the tatted up rockstar naked in her bed. What started off as a bit of fun suddenly turned into a second chance at love. She was everything he was ready for.. -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![Venus in Fur by David Ives]()
Venus in Fur by David Ives
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term “masochism” was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive adulterous relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved... -
![Triplets For The Billion-Heir by Layla Valentine]()
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![Lieblingstochter by Sarah Jollien-Fardel]()
Lieblingstochter by Sarah Jollien-Fardel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSarah Jollien-Fardel erzählt die Geschichte einer Befreiung, die unter die Haut geht: In den Walliser Bergen wächst die kleine Jeanne mit einem gewalttätigen Vater, einer verängstigten Mutter und der eingeschüchterten Schwester auf. Alle im Dorf wissen von der willkürlichen Brutalität des Vaters, alle schauen weg. Jeanne flüchtet in ihre Phantasie, in die Welt der Bücher und später ins Internat... -
![Melancholy Play: a chamber musical by Sarah Ruhl]()
Melancholy Play: a chamber musical by Sarah Ruhl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this chamber musical version of Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play, Tilly's melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly's hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond... -
![Sumnjivo lice by Branislav Nušić]()
Sumnjivo lice by Branislav Nušić
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsU prvom periodu svog dramskog stvaralaštva Nušić je bio pod uticajem ruskog pisca Nikolaja Vasiljeviča Gogolja. Sâm pisac o tome govori u predgovoru komediji Sumnjivo lice, koju je prvobitno nazvao „gogoljijada u dva čina“.Čuvena Gogoljeva drama Revizor inspirativno je uticala na pisca Sumnjivog lica, ali je on dramski zaplet vezao za naše prilike i naravi... -
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![On the Slopes of Tahoe by J.A. Forde]()
On the Slopes of Tahoe by J.A. Forde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWanting each other is easy…It’s everything else that’s hard.Breck Kylie’s perfect life unravels in a squall of betrayal, leaving him and his seven-year-old daughter reeling. Choosing to retreat from the sunny shores of Sydney, Australia, they embark on an extended vacation to Lake Tahoe in hopes they’ll find a new ‘normal’ on the snowy slopes... -
![The Foreigner by Larry Shue]()
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does a shy Englishman in search of rest do when he visits a fishing lodge in Georgia? In Larry Shue's hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proofreader by day and boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn't understand English... -
![Not I by Samuel Beckett]()
Not I by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972)... -
![Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig]()
Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA concert in Ohio in 1934 is jeopardized when the lead Italian tenor falls into a drunken'stupor. So the impresario's diminutive assistant blacks up and goes on as Otello. The tenor awakens, dons his costume, and thence follows a hilarious comedy involving two Otellos, a volatile Italian wife, an outrageous bellhop and a cynical impresario... -
![Contos de Aprendiz by Carlos Drummond de Andrade]()
Contos de Aprendiz by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'Contos de aprendiz', de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, foi publicado quando o autor já estava próximo dos 50 anos. Até então, o poeta mineiro nunca tinha se aventurado como contista. Essa edição, com novo projeto gráfico e prefácio escrito pelo escritor e jornalista José Castello, faz parte das comemorações do centenário de nascimento do poeta mineiro... -
![Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin]()
Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s October, 1904 in Paris, France. Young Albert Einstein and young Pablo Picasso meet at a bar to discuss philosophy, politics and women... -
![Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction from Ireland. No 1 Bestseller... -
![Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang]()
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike... -
![Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon]()
Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKen and Chris have found their host Charley, a prominent Government official, in his bedroom, too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his ear lobe! Len and Claire arrive, themselves injured in a car crash, and are soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems... -
![The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière]()
The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York)... -
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![We Share Everything! by Robert Munsch]()
We Share Everything! by Robert Munsch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's the first day of kindergarten and Amanda and Jeremiah have a problem. They both want to read the same books. They want to paint with the same paints. And they refuse to share. The teacher tells them, "Look. This is kindergarten. In kindergarten we share. We share everything." Everything? Amanda and Jeremiah decide to take their teacher at her word... -
![Forms of Heaven: Three Plays by Clive Barker by Clive Barker]()
Forms of Heaven: Three Plays by Clive Barker by Clive Barker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThough each of these three plays evokes a different world, they share a vision of how imagination enriches and transforms our lives. From the haunted and bitersweet humor of Crazyface to the politically charged landscapes of Paradise Street and on to me erotic fantasy of Subtle Bodies, Barker demonstrates yet again why he is among the most popular and treasured of contemporary writers... -
![Turning Pages by Tristi Pinkston]()
Turning Pages by Tristi Pinkston
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith his pride and her prejudice, what could possibly go wrong? When the arrogant Blake Hansen steals Addie Preston's promotion at the library, he pretty much rubs her nose in it. But Addie, who dreams of being a full-fledged librarian, decides to stick it out. She loves surrounding herself with books and keeping her father's memory alive in the building where they spent so much time together... -
![Research Purposes Only by Terry Towers]()
Research Purposes Only by Terry Towers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIncluded for a limited time is the free full length novel Forbidden Indulgences! Fake. Fraud. Charlatan. I was all of those and more. Well, that’s how I felt most of the time. I write romance novels—and not the sweet, innocent, “dewy rose of her desire” kind. Nope, for me, it’s gotta melt your panties or I’m not doing my job... -
![Tara: A Play In Two Acts by Mahesh Dattani]()
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![The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOften called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound... -
![Hans steek die Rubicon oor by Rudie van Rensburg]()
Hans steek die Rubicon oor by Rudie van Rensburg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHans loop op 90 nié met ’n loopring nie. Sy orige kinders maneuvreer hom vanuit hul tuistes oorsee in Huis Madeliefie in, maar Hans skop nog kliphard, en gou lei hy ’n ouetehuisopstand teen die onhoudbaar drakoniese matrone. Dis daggakoekies, ontkleedansers en vet sports net waar jy kyk in hierdie hoogs komiese roman oor oudword op eie terme... -
![Lezioni di convivenza by Chiara Venturelli]()
Lezioni di convivenza by Chiara Venturelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRick ha imparato una lezione nei suoi ventisette anni di vita: non sfidare la sorte. Perché gli è andata già bene una volta, nei tre anni in cui Elizabeth è stata sua coinquilina al college: contro qualsiasi pronostico non sono mai finiti a letto insieme e sono, invece, diventati molto amici... -
![Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal]()
Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace... -
![The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni]()
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes... -
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![A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard]()
A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDramatizes how individuals misperceive the world... -
![...Who Needs Enemies? by Alan Dean Foster]()
...Who Needs Enemies? by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCollection of short stories. Swamp Planet ChristmasSnake EyesBystanderWhat do the Simple Folk do?.. -
![Pieces of my Heart by Sinéad Moriarty]()
Pieces of my Heart by Sinéad Moriarty
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAva is juggling a life that seems to have too many pieces. She is trying to do the best by her family, but feels like she's running on empty. But when a crisis threatens everything she holds dear, she realizes she has to dig deeper than ever before and figure out a way to hold on to the pieces of her heart... -
![Love and Information by Caryl Churchill]()
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing… a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting." - Benedict NightingaleSomeone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won’t answer the door... -
![Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang]()
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence... -
![Master Class. by Terrence McNally]()
Master Class. by Terrence McNally
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaster Class is a pyrotechnical theater-fireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang...
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