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Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell · 73 pages

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The Birds

Aristophanes · 138 pages

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What the Butler Saw

Joe Orton · 72 pages

"Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive, private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary, Geraldine. Unwittingly surprised by his wife, he hides the girl. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by young bellhop Nicholas Beckett, has promised him the secretarial post. When a government inspector arrives, chaos, under

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare · 122 pages

One night two young couples run into an enchanted forest in an attempt to escape their problems. But these four humans do not realize that the forest is filled with fairies and hobgoblins who love making mischief. When Oberon, the Fairy King, and his loyal hobgoblin servant, Puck, intervene in human affairs, the fate of these young couples is magically and hilariously transformed. Like a classic f

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The Skin of Our Teeth

Thornton Wilder · 144 pages

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The Bald Soprano and Other Plays

Eugene Ionesco · 160 pages

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde · 216 pages

Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.

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You Can't Take it With You

Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman · 72 pages

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · 87 pages

This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him.

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Joseph Kesselring · 110 pages

Although these words refer to Teddy Brewster in this hilarious play by Joseph Kesselring, they could have applied equally to most of the other members of the Brewster household. Teddy thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, always "charging" upstairs when he is not in the basement digging "locks for the Panama Canal." His two elderly aunts, with whom he lives, also have their own bizarre secret, for which t

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The Arsonists

Max Frisch · 80 pages

"Fires are becoming something of a problem, but Biedermann has it all under control. A respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, he believes nothing can get to him. Being the great philanthrope, he is happy to fulfil his civic duty and give shelter to two new houseguests, and when they start filling the attic with petrol drums he'll help them wire the fuse."

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Harvey

Mary Chase · 80 pages

One of the longest running comedies in Broadway and West End history, Harvey has endeared generations of audiences with the relationship of the amiable Elwood P Dowd and his best friend, the 6’1” tall white rabbit which only he can see. Elwood’s family are finally driven to committing him into Chumley’s Rest - home for the mentally disturbed, and here the fun really starts when Doctor Chumley beco

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The Blacks

Jean Genet · 128 pages

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The House of Blue Leaves

John Guare · 100 pages

"Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas. Who is. Much to the chagrin of Artie's downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus who'll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his f

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The Clean House and Other Plays

Sarah Ruhl · 411 pages

A play of uncommon romance and unique comedy--a maid, who hates cleaning, has dreams of creating the perfect joke.

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Wise Children

Angela Carter · 237 pages

In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora -- unacknowledged the daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day -- were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at the age of 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed the A

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The American Dream & The Zoo Story

Edward Albee · 90 pages

The play, a satire on American family life, concerns a married couple and their elderly mother. They are visited by two guests this particular day who turn their world upside down. The family in this play consist of a dominating Mommy, an emasculated Daddy and a clever and witty Grandma. A neighbor, Mrs. Barker, enters and the dialogue continues with the occasional interjection by Grandma. Mommy a

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The Teleportation Accident

Ned Beauman · 368 pages

"In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apoli

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The Dumb Waiter

Harold Pinter · 64 pages

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Wyrd Sisters

Terry Pratchett · 304 pages

The Ramtops are suffering from a situation strangely reminiscent of Shakespeare's "Scottish play." Can Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and young witch Magrat set the kingdom to rights before the usurper banishes all witches?

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