Harold Pinter Methuen Drama Piffs and Lamb
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February 8, 2018
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John Osborne Dramatic Publishing Jimmy and Cliff The play is about an angry young man, Jimmy Porter, who looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. The words pour out of him, a flood of satire and invective. The words are often cruel, but they are also vibrant and colorful. They sting...
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February 8, 2018
Miguel Pinero A Mermaid Dramabook Longshore and El Raheem This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance...
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February 8, 2018
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Patrick and Michael THE STORY: 1792. Michael Rowen returns home from Louisville with news that Kentucky has become a state and with a young black slave woman he has bought with the idea of breeding a second family. Morning Star fears his treachery, remembering...
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February 8, 2018
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Star and Michael 2 scenes THE STORY: THE COURTSHIP OF MORNING STAR. 1776. Into the hut built on his homestead, Rowen takes a wife by kidnapping Morning Star, a young Indian girl whose tribe has been ravaged by smallpox. To keep her from escaping, he cuts the tendon...
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February 8, 2018
James Saunders Samuel French Man and Woman A series of sketches and vignettes. They are brief, witty and pointed. They are love encounters– the games people play. Here is the idiot way quarrels start up, or the way people meet and fence with one another. After Liverpool is not a play, but a suite...
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February 8, 2018
Steven Sater Musical Theatre International Wendla and Melchior It is Germany, 1891, a world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body and wonders aloud where babies come from… until Mama tells her to shut it and put on a proper dress....
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February 8, 2018
John Rustan and Frank Semerano Samuel French Thug and Spuds A slime-ball named Coins Fontaine has cashed in. When his account is closed, there’s evidence of foul play. Who would want to kill Coins? Everybody! The fingers of suspicion especially point to Coins’ hot young widow, a woman with...
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February 8, 2018
Sarah Ruhl Samuel French Stranger and Jean An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer...
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February 8, 2018
Sarah Ruhl Samuel French Lorenzo and Frank Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser,...
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February 8, 2018
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