Publisher's summary: "This unique collection of nine hard-to-find plays tells the unfolding story of the early American theater by combining authoritative texts, author biographies, helpful historical and cultural chronologies, and a lucid, discerning introduction."

Staging the Nation: Plays from the American Theater, 1787-1909

Literature & Fiction

Anthology

Dramas & Plays

Bedford Books

A Stocking of Christmas Poems

Random House]

Included in this volume are Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom, about witchcraft in the seventeenth century; Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, an account of the lives of four young women by Pam Gems; Louise Page's Tissue, about breast cancer; and Aurora Leigh, adapted by Michelene Wandor herself from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel. Each play has an afterword by its author, and the volume opens with an introduction by the editor.

Plays By Women, Vol. 4

Methuen Drama

This is a wide-ranging selection by theatre director Yvonne Brewster
Boy with Beer by Paul Boakye is a funny and sexy story of a Guardian-reading gay photographer who finds his fantasy "African Prince" - "Boakye's writing is brash and exceedingly fresh…Boy with Beer has cutting edge" (Independent); A Jamaican Airman Foresees his Death by Fred D'Aguiar takes Yeats's famous poem and twists it into a rhapsody from a colonial perspective in WW2 Scotland - "A tough, warm and thrillingly individual play full of live-wire humour and athletic assurance…The writing is reckless but controlled, the humour dark, ribald and dangerous…simply bursts with that fiery energy of which true theatre is made" (John Peter, Sunday Times). 
Munda Negra by Bonnie Greer examines the heart of darkness in Western civilisation - "Greer is clearly a writer of imagination" (The Times); Scrape off the Black by Tunde Ikoli is an East End mixed-race family drama - "Ikoli's play is funny, wry and at times positively searing" (Jim Hiley, Listener); Talking in Tongues by Winsome Pinnock explores issues around mixed race matches in modern-day Britain - "Winsome Pinnock, a writer of extraordinary promise, is here expressing with guile and tenacity, many unsayable things about sexual and social miscegenation…she writes with enormous verve." (Michael Coveney, Observer)

Black Plays: 3 (New Theatre Scripts)

For the first time, Bryony Lavery's plays back in print in one volume
 Includes the plays Her Aching Heart, Nothing Compares to You, The Two Marias and Origin of the Species. Her Aching Heart is "a deliciously irreverent parody of the historical romance, better known as the bonk-buster...Georgette Heyer never wrote anything quite like it, however and Barbara Cartland would be more than confused by this lesbian romance...hilarious" (Guardian); Nothing Compares to You is an evocation of a woman experiencing the loss of a loved one in the aftermath of a car accident "The characters may be touched by death but laughter is never far away...A haunting show of hidden depth" (Birmingham Post); "In Bryony Lavery's quirky Origin of the Species, an ardent archaeologist digging for prehistoric man finds instead a four-million-year old woman...a telling allegory of the loss of innocence...Lavery's wit and imagination are unquestionably present." (Obersver)Introduced by the author, Bryony Lavery's last play Goliath (adapted from Bea Campbell's book) was a hit at the Bush Theatre in 1997. Bryony Lavery is one of Britain's foremost female playwrights.

Lavery Plays: 1 - Origin of the Species / Two Marias / Her Aching Heart / Nothing Compares to You

Bryony Lavery

Humor & Entertainment

A collection of extraordinary, playable translations from across the Latin American continent, including a new Mario Vargas Llosa play
 In La Chunga by Mario Vargas Llosa a young gambler down on his luck lends his girlfriend to the lady bar-keeper for the night to pay off a debt. Four years later the girl has neither been seen nor heard of, and the gamblers meet to speculate on the events of that fateful night.
In Paper Flowers by Egon Wolff, Eva, a lonely middle class woman puts up a tramp for the night out of the kindness of her heart, only to find that he intends to occupy her life as well as her house, reducing her once and for all to his state.
Medea in the Mirror by José Triana is an extraordinary re-setting of the Medea story in the Cuban revolution of 1959. As Maria, a young mulatto takes her revenge on Julian for abandoning her for someone else - the play becomes a mirror for the events that took place when Castro ousted the Batista regime.

The Methuen Book of Contemporary Latin American Plays

Short stories to make you feel good.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories for a Better World

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 9th Series

Samuel. French

Selected by New York theatre critics, professionals, and the editorial staff of Samuel French, Inc. as the most important plays of the Fourteenth Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival sponsored by Double Image Theatre, Inc. This Collection Includes: A Blind Date with Mary by Sura; Bums by Robert Shaffron; Civilization and Its Malcontents by Stanley Taikeff; Do Over by Frederick Stroppel; Tradition 1A by Howard Rice.

Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Fourteenth Series

Samuel French, Inc.

Includes No Problem by Catherine Butterfield, A Grave Encounter by Gene Ruffini, Beached by Bernie Deleo, Reservations for Two by Lori Goodman, Strawberry Preserves by Le Wilhelm, What's a Girl to Do? by Jim Hansen.

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 13th Series

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