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Author
Series
A New directions paperbook volume NDP501
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
This collection consists of two full-length plays, The Perfectionist, and Black, and nine one-act plays. The Perfectionist is a comedy of manners set in an affluent upper middle-class milieu. Black explores the potentially lethal triangular relationship between a white woman, her former husband, and her black lover. The subjects of the nine one-act plays range widely, from a beauty contest to a serial killing--Cover, p. [2].
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details, production history, biography of the playwright, literary aspects of the drama, critical reaction to the play, major awards, the play's influence,...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A two-act play, consisting of Albee's "The Zoo Story" (1959) as the second act, and the addition of the prequel "Homelife," in which Peter and his wife Ann have a conversation that compels him to take the walk in the park where he encounters Jerry, as the first act.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 40-42
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A wire for Live, the Web, thirst, recklessness, warnings, fog, bread and butter, Bound East for Cardiff, aAbortion, the movie man, servitude, the sniper, the personal eqauation, before breakfast, now I ask you, in the zone, ile, the long voyage home, the moon of the caribbees, the robe, beyond the horizon, shell shock, the dreamy kid, where the cross is made, the straw, Chris Christophersen, gold, anna Christie, and the Emperor Jones.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since his first play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, which premiered in 1965, McNally has proven himself to be a trailblazing figure and unique voice in American theater, known for his exploration of gay themes and his chronicling of America's changing social attitudes over the past fifty years. His thirty-three plays, nine musicals, three operas, and seven scripts for film and television, are a testament to his astonishing commitment to writing....
17) The cryptogram
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing - the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of danger. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them - or perhaps distract...
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