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Natives
ISBN: 9780881454659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A sophisticated, contemporary comedy about a single woman in her fifties who plans a romantic retreat to France, but is thwarted when her three grown daughters boomerang home unexpectedly, with their partners and agendas in tow. "Neipris gives us real characters in this gently funny play, consistently amusing without being stuffed with one-liners." -Tucson Weekly "In the play's often hilarious dialogue, tinged with the harsh bite of reality, one daughter reminds us, 'Home is that place where, when you go there, they have to take you in.' In today's society of overachievers, everybody is...
A sophisticated, contemporary comedy about a single woman in her fifties who plans a romantic retreat to France, but is thwarted when her three grown ...
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Private Parties
ISBN: 9780881454550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A kinky, deranged comedy built on the sale of a vintage Ford Mustang and an unidentified body in the car. Two women meet and against their better judgment cross the border into Mexico for an unusual resort weekend. "Allan Havis, who co-directs the playwriting program at U C S D, earned his reputation for mordant wit and chilling dramatic climaxes everywhere but San Diego. Now, finally, one of his weird dramas has opened here - the creepy and highly entertaining PRIVATE PARTIES ... Billed as a Thelma and Louise kind of show, it is that, but with layers and a jaunty, laid-back So-Cal tome...
A kinky, deranged comedy built on the sale of a vintage Ford Mustang and an unidentified body in the car. Two women meet and against their better judg...
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Girls in Trouble
ISBN: 9780881454611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. GIRLS IN TROUBLE is a striking and ferocious play which dares to explore the controversial history of abortion, through its life-changing affect on women across several generations. This darkly humorous, shocking work is sure to inspire spirited debate. "GIRLS IN TROUBLE is the most thought-provoking (and also the funniest) play I've seen in New York since - well, since May 1997, when I saw (twice) STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE, Reynolds's razor-sharp play about race and political correctness ... In GIRLS IN TROUBLE, Reynolds tackles another impossible subject: abortion ... The adjective...
GIRLS IN TROUBLE is a striking and ferocious play which dares to explore the controversial history of abortion, through its life-changing affect on wo...
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Roger and Vanessa & Scotch and Water
ISBN: 9780881454536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection includes two short plays: ROGER AND VANESSA and SCOTCH AND WATER. ROGER AND VANESSA: Fresh out of prison, Roger has a scheme to make his volatile relationship with Vanessa, a manicurist, profitable through a singing act. The only problem is "You can't sing," says Vanessa. This sets off a hilarious battle in which Roger and Vanessa air their grievances with each other, and it comes to light that Vanessa is pregnant. Is Roger the father? And is their love sufficient to conquer the challenges that confront them? SCOTCH AND WATER: Raw, raucous, and surprisingly tender, SCOTCH AND...
This collection includes two short plays: ROGER AND VANESSA and SCOTCH AND WATER. ROGER AND VANESSA: Fresh out of prison, Roger has a scheme to make h...
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How Shakespeare Won the West
ISBN: 9780881454529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for enthusiastic '49ers. But with stiff competition, romantic entanglements, and an Indian chief who sees himself in King Lear, their ambitious cross-country adventure is complicated by the teeming challenges and glories of the new American frontier. Embracing elements of Shakespearean comedy and American vaudeville, HOW SHAKESPEARE WON THE WEST is a jubilant celebration of the human spirit. "Engaging, energetic, amusing, and clearly in love with...
The play tells the story of a ragtag troupe of actors as they head West during the Gold Rush, seeking fortune and fame and performing Shakespeare for ...
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The Wild Duck
ISBN: 9780881454505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the Ekdal family. Their peaceful lives are turned upside down when an idealistic family friend arrives. When the secrets unravel, powerful questions are revealed. From Richard Nelson's Introduction: "THE WILD DUCK is a play about family life twisted, bent, and knotted into perverse shapes. Everyone seems to have a lifetime's history with everyone else. Take just one character, Gregers Werle. There's his father with whom he has been estranged for...
In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the ...
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The Release Of A Live Performance
ISBN: 9780881454475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A young man who sows his wild oats is a hero - every woman he beds is a medal. The more medals, the bigger the hero. But a woman who does the same? Not a hero. The exact opposite. Some things never change. Nell has fallen so deeply in love with Brent that every man she sees reminds her of him. Sleeping with every man who reminds her of him - which is every man - is an act of love and belief for her. But that's not the way the world sees it. Her sister, Coco, comes back to their childhood home in Texas to rescue her, but Nell doesn't want rescuing. She wants to be alive. And then two men...
A young man who sows his wild oats is a hero - every woman he beds is a medal. The more medals, the bigger the hero. But a woman who does the same? No...
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The Extremists
ISBN: 9780881454413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Spin or fact? Theater or reality? A biting, original political satire that challenges audiences of any political affiliation, THE EXTREMISTS is a labyrinth of wordplay and mind games in which a television talk-show host and his guest, author of a book about terrorism, get lost in their own doublespeak ... or are they really double-agents, subversively reprogramming our sound-byte-saturated minds? "It's Samuel Beckett meets Larry King in this new play by CJ Hopkins. When an expert on terrorism appears on a T V talk show, the conversation becomes a perverse satirical rant on the increasing...
Spin or fact? Theater or reality? A biting, original political satire that challenges audiences of any political affiliation, THE EXTREMISTS is a laby...
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All Eyes and Ears
ISBN: 9780881454420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A seamstress is catapulted into a new life, new house, and new government job. But good fortunes quickly change when her new position attracts unexpected guests and reveals more secrets about herself than about political conspiracies. "Intar has such a lock on plays by disgruntled Cubans that references to U S bumbling on the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis echo throughout much of the company's work. Rogelio Martinez breaks with tradition by setting ALL EYES AND EARS between those two events and aiming his satirical barbs at the Soviet Union. He also takes a novel approach to another...
A seamstress is catapulted into a new life, new house, and new government job. But good fortunes quickly change when her new position attracts unexpec...
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What A Man Weighs
ISBN: 9780881454406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There is a rule in book conservation: You must never do something perfect. Perfection is forgery. Once a book is torn, the tear cannot be erased. Joan dreams of the man who will erase all her imperfections, even though she's sure that's against all the rules of love, too. She decides to fall for a seductive psychopath who she knows can make her perfect - but she doesn't know the price she will have to pay. "WHAT A MAN WEIGHS is a contemporary romantic comedy with some serious things to say about sexual politics. Sherry Kramer's play is about a womanizer and the women around him in a book...
There is a rule in book conservation: You must never do something perfect. Perfection is forgery. Once a book is torn, the tear cannot be erased. Joan...
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Zorro X 2
ISBN: 9780881454390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bernardo Solano updates the classic tale of Zorro to the 21st century, complete with immigrant laborers, a sadistic chief of security, and an ineffective computer geek who's taken in by a homeless man who claims to be the original Zorro. "The new ZORRO is one of the most delightful plays you'll see ... Bernardo Solano's witty reimagining of the Zorro story hardly touches the ground as it navigates the treacherous straits between camp and seriousness ... Solano also excels at uninhibited, campy dialogue ..." -Mark Arnest, The Gazette, Colorado Springs ..". A] charmingly raw new ZORRO....
Bernardo Solano updates the classic tale of Zorro to the 21st century, complete with immigrant laborers, a sadistic chief of security, and an ineffect...
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A Light Lunch
ISBN: 9780881454383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A LIGHT LUNCH is a post-Bush cautionary tale about the price paid for legacy. When a young lawyer from Texas invites a literary agent for lunch in a New York City restaurant, more than a production is on the table. "The gentlemanly playwright A R Gurney casually tosses his own metaphorical shoe ... in the direction of our departing president in his latest politically minded play, A LIGHT LUNCH. Mr Gurney take s] jovial, self-deprecating jabs at his own foibles, and the follies of the theater business too." -Charles Isherwood, New York Times "A R Gurney's jokey new play, A LIGHT LUNCH, is...
A LIGHT LUNCH is a post-Bush cautionary tale about the price paid for legacy. When a young lawyer from Texas invites a literary agent for lunch in a N...
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Scramble!
ISBN: 9780881454376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A golf magazine is the setting for David Wiltse's farce on the intrigues of the office. "The editorial office of a golf magazine seems an unlikely place for a comedic farce. But it makes perfect sense in the context of SCRAMBLE By David Wiltse ... Actually, SCRAMBLE , isn't about golf at all; it's about a very typical small office and the Byzantine romantic intrigues that go on there. The fact that this office houses a golf magazine is merely secondary to the struggles over sex and power that are the real focus of the staff's interest. The play's title, SCRAMBLE , does owe a nod to a...
A golf magazine is the setting for David Wiltse's farce on the intrigues of the office. "The editorial office of a golf magazine seems an unlikely pla...
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Tainted Blood
ISBN: 9780881454338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. "Jacobson's clever play balances repressed Victorian sexuality, historical anecdote, over-the-top hilarity and vampire melodrama into an intoxicating brew." -L A Weekly "Tom Jacobson's clever satiric pastiche pits Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle against the undead. Drawing on the three writers' shared fascination with the occult, Jacobson assembles them at Wilde's Irish estate for a demonstration by a sinister Indian mesmerist....
Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller. "Ja...
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As the Beaver
ISBN: 9780881454321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. AS THE BEAVER takes as its premise that Ward and June Cleaver's youngest son, The Beaver, is gay. Joel Drake Johnson then spins this seemingly slight premise into a smart and funny and ultimately enriching exploration of American society and family. "Tell people the initial concept of Chicagoan Joel Johnson's new play AS THE BEAVER - Ward and June Cleaver discover that their younger son is gay - and they'll probably roll their eyes and ask, 'What's next?' But tell people that Johnson doesn't settle for a late-night skit, that he develops a fully realized play that is at once hilarious,...
AS THE BEAVER takes as its premise that Ward and June Cleaver's youngest son, The Beaver, is gay. Joel Drake Johnson then spins this seemingly slight ...
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Three Nights in Tehran
ISBN: 9780881454314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A comedy about the Iran-Contra affair. "Heroic ... Sharp ... Wonderfully nuts ... The antic lunacy of a Busby Berkeley routine ... Strand's Ollie North is not just the butt of the play but its suffering hero. He's like a lawbreaker out of Ibsen, maybe a little crazy but with a genuine, shining integrity." -The Washington Post "John Strand's THREE NIGHTS IN TEHRAN is a furiously comic take on the Iran-Contra affair ... Inherently theatrical ... A farce exploring the outer limits of American diplomatic folly ... Strand's stage version of North consciously echoes elements of Othello's...
A comedy about the Iran-Contra affair. "Heroic ... Sharp ... Wonderfully nuts ... The antic lunacy of a Busby Berkeley routine ... Strand's Ollie Nort...
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Adoration of the Old Woman
ISBN: 9780881454307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set against the backdrop of Puerto Rico's struggle with the issue of statehood, a young woman, who speaks no Spanish, moves in with her 105-year-old great grandmother who speaks no English. Both women deal with problems of love - the younger with two new suitors and the older with the ghost of her husband's mistress. ..". There is more - much, much more - to Jose Rivera's new play, ADORATION OF THE OLD WOMAN. But the play's internal engine - its life and humor and earthiness - is driven by the shockingly profane, deeply poetic words of this spiritual old woman. Dona Belen may be the most...
Set against the backdrop of Puerto Rico's struggle with the issue of statehood, a young woman, who speaks no Spanish, moves in with her 105-year-old g...
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Pharmacopeia
ISBN: 9780881454253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Subtitled "The Most Lamentable Tragedy of William Payne, M.D.," PHARMACOPEIA gleefully takes well-aimed shots at the medical industrial complex. ..". grabs you by the lapels and demands to be reckoned with, every moment of every scene ... hovers between epiphany and fiasco, inspiration and indulgence. Call it sheer theatrical brilliance or mere pretentious twaddle, but you always know you're seeing something; indifference is not an option ... writer Gil Kofman's gleefully offensive new medical lampoon, PHARMACOPEIA: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of William Payne, MD ... PHARMACOPEIA achieves...
Subtitled "The Most Lamentable Tragedy of William Payne, M.D.," PHARMACOPEIA gleefully takes well-aimed shots at the medical industrial complex. ..". ...
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Aviators
ISBN: 9780881454246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a house poised between land and sea, a husband and wife, both academics, are facing personal and professional crises when a mysterious young woman enters their lives. Many secrets from past and present burst open as the husband's life begins to unravel and as his wife seems more and more under the illusion that he is her onetime hero, Charles Lindbergh. A witty, imaginative and perceptive play about marriage, family, betrayal, redemption, and the forces that try to pull a couple down as they struggle to rise above them. "Compelling ... High art ... a play about life's seemingly neurotic...
In a house poised between land and sea, a husband and wife, both academics, are facing personal and professional crises when a mysterious young woman ...
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Mustn't Do It!
ISBN: 9780881454215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A domestic comedy whose homosexual character is part of an ordinary family that views his sexual orientation as unnatural. When the play was first produced in 1922, it enjoyed two performances and then was quietly removed from the repertory as too progressive for its time. It is, however, just right for ours. "Highly amusing." -Pieter Liefhebber, Der Telegraaf "It goes without saying for the play MUSTN'T DO IT is a real curiosity for the audience eighty years on because gay liberation has taken place in the meantime ... A fine monument to bygone manners, outdated norms and values, and...
A domestic comedy whose homosexual character is part of an ordinary family that views his sexual orientation as unnatural. When the play was first pro...
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