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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Boys in the Band
Mart Crowley · 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.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee · 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
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre · 166 pages
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
Old Times
Harold Pinter · 75 pages
Like Pinter's earlier plays. Pinter deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters -- a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a friend of Kate's whom they have not seen in 20 years. Beneath the surface of their taut, witty conversation lurks suggestions of darkness, until the present is overwhelmed with intimations of some frightening past.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams · 336 pages
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Eugene Ionesco · 141 pages
A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman · 107 pages
An acting edition of the 1939 drama in which brothers Oscar and Ben Hubbard steal money from their ailing brother-in-law in order to fund a cotton mill, only to be caught by their sister Regina who demands they give her a seventy-five percent share of the business in exchange for keeping them out of prison.
The Time of Your Life
William Saroyan · 207 pages
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson · 111 pages
Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
American Buffalo
David Mamet · 106 pages
Two neighborhood punks and the owner of a junk shop plot to burglarize a coin collector's apartment. They fail because of inertia, ineptitude and mutual distrust, but remain bound together by their helpless frustration. 2 acts, 3 men, 1 interior.
A Lie of the Mind
Sam Shepard · 142 pages
Also contains The War in Heaven, Angel's Monologue by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard.
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
Sophocles · 272 pages
Mrs. Warren's Profession
George Bernard Shaw · 112 pages
From the book:Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No author who has ever known the exultation of sending the Press into an hysterical tumult of protest, of moral pani
Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare · 120 pages
When Manhattan art dealers take a younger man into their home believing him to be a friend of their children and Sidney Portier's son, he leaves them with a lasting impression.
Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks · 109 pages
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori
Antigone
Jean Anouilh · 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 .
Master Harold...and the boys
Athol Fugard · 61 pages
"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.