Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> American - General

Included are Thelma Myrtle Duncan's Sacrifice, Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, John Matheus's Ti Yette, May Miller's Graven Images and Riding the Goat, Willis Richardson's...

In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the specter-like Alice, ringleader of the neighborhood; Esra, a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is MIA--again; and Ivan, a stranded businessman trying to make his way home. As Gideon makes futile attempts to break into an apartment that may or may not be his, an unsettling...

A riveting new work about power--and the abuse of power-- in ancient Rome that has startling resonance with our age, Conversations in Tusculum reimagines the intense interaction among Brutus, Cassius, and Cicero leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar, the leader they had once followed into battle but whom they have come to despise. Passionate in their beliefs but torn by their sense of loyalty, they struggle to continue believing in him despite their fear that his actions may pose great dangers to the nation. Conversations in Tusculum had its world premiere at the...

-Midway through Water & Power comes a scene so perfectly written, so chilling and yet so hilarious it] encapsulates all the anger and social criticism fueling the play], beginning with the agonizing realization (also central to Culture Clash's smash Chavez Ravine) that the fates of the L.A. many are held in the hands of the often capricious and heartless few.---Variety

-The funniest show the Bay Area comedy troupe has ever written. Culture Clash uses the story of Zorro] as a starting point for a devastatingly hilarious satire of just about everything...

- Noah] Haidle writes with an informed heart and with a big career ahead of him.---The New York Times

Three plays from one of New York's hottest young writers, produced to great acclaim Off -Broadway. Includes: Rag and Bone, Mr. Marmalade, and Vigils.

Based on a real-life sex scandal that escalated all the way to Roosevelt, this play is a powerful and pertinent examination of bigotry and injustice. As the debate about homosexuals in the US military still rages, it's a timely reminder that progress is not always forthcoming.

Grace is a professor of natural science and a ruthless atheist; her son Tom is a barrister who abandons the law to pursue his faith, causing mother and son to collide disastrously. Grace unfolds into a brilliantly considered exploration of the complex issues of faith and religion, and a devastatingly powerful family drama.