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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams Β· 158 pages

Members of a neurotic Southern family gather to face the impending death of their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate.

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Bent

Martin Sherman Β· 74 pages

A horrifically beautiful story about the power of love. . .and how it can conquer even the Third Reich. . . The arts flourished in pre-WWII Germany. The Nazis brought it all to a crashing end. A love story, in this instance a love between men, about how the power of the mind can resist the physical, psychological, and emotional cruelty put forth. Written originally (I believe) as a stage pla

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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen Β· 384 pages

Henrik Ibsen's famous Victorian-Era plays 'A Doll's House', 'Ghosts', 'Hedda Gabler', and 'The Master Builder' are translated from Norwegian to English by James McFarlane and Jens Arup. This edition includes an introduction by James McFarlane, select bibliography, and a chronology of Henrik Ibsen.

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The Normal Heart

Larry Kramer Β· 90 pages

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The Father

August Strindberg Β· 79 pages

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee Β· 242 pages

George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in the

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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Tony Kushner Β· 128 pages

Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the 1993 Tony Award for Best Play. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former dr

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Quicksand

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

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The History Boys

Alan Bennett Β· 109 pages

In Alan Bennet's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.

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The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley Β· 145 pages

Theatre Four, Richard Barr and Charles Woodward, Jr. present "The Boys in The Band," by Mart Crowley, production designed by Peter Harvey, directed by Robert Moore, with Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux, Laurence Luckinbill, Kenneth Nelson, Keith Prentice, Peter White.

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker Β· 274 pages

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula

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The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall Β· 490 pages

Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parentsa fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.

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Edward the Second

Christopher Marlowe

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht Β· 122 pages

In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, the Thirty Years War become the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for irony, accent and

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Macbeth

William Shakespeare Β· 135 pages

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A Taste of Honey: A Play

Shelagh Delaney Β· 87 pages

A Taste of Honey tells the story of a working-class adolescent girl and her various relationships: the black sailor who gets her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through the pregnancy; her fun-loving and saloon-frequenting mother; and Peter, her mothers newly acquired husband.

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The Crucible

Arthur Miller Β· 152 pages

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House of Bernarda Alba

Federico Garcia Lorca, Gwynne Edwards Β· 141 pages

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Love! Valour! Compassion!

Terrence McNally Β· 120 pages

Eight friends leave the city for three weekends of rest and relaxation in the country.

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Stop Kiss

Diana Son Β· 102 pages

"The story of Stop Kiss is deceptively simple: two young women in New York meet, talk about their boyfriends, feel a growing, unspoken attraction for each other, and finally kiss. And that one innocent kiss sets off a savage gay-bashing. But even as Stop Kiss confronts the reality of physical violence, Diana Son's imaginative, moving, and surprising comedy brings audiences - and her principal char

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Antigone

Jean Anouilh Β· 74 pages

Apre s Sophocle, J. Anouilh reprend le mythe d'Antigone. Fille d'Oedipe et de Jocaste, la jeune Antigone est en re volte contre la loi humaine qui interdit d'enterrer le corps de son fre re Polynice. Pre sente e sous l'Occupation en 1944, cette pie ce met en sce ne l'absolu d'un personnage en re volte face au pouvoir, a l'injustice et a la me diocrite .

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Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin Β· 224 pages

Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

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Reflections in a Golden Eye

Carson McCullers Β· 136 pages

The novel takes place at an army base in the U.S. state of Georgia. Private Ellgee Williams, a solitary man full of secrets and desires, has served for two years and is assigned to stable duty. After doing yard work at the home of Capt. Penderton, he sees the captain's wife nude and becomes obsessed with her. Capt. Weldon Penderton and his wife Leonora, who grew up as an Army brat, have a fiery

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