Theater Playscripts
RED SPEEDO: A PLAY
Written by Hnath, Lucas
The Obie-winning play by the Tony-nominated playwright of A Doll's House, Part 2 Ray's swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he'll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he'll never need a real job.
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND THEN KILL THEM: A PLAY
Written by Feiffer, Halley
Left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, Ada and Sam cultivate an insular world into which they soon draw a third wheel - a pockmarked, limping wallflower named Dorrie. In the years spanning childhood to young adulthood, these three troubled girls learn to lean on each other completely, finding ways to fill each other up and to tear each other down.
GUARDSMAN: A PLAY
Written by Nelson, Richard
Budapest's most beautiful young actress is notorious for affairs that only last six months. When she finally marries, she chooses the city's most handsome and talented young actor. Five and a half months later, suspecting his new wife is getting restless, the actor takes on his most daring role yet--disguising himself as a dashing Emperor's guardsman--to test her fidelity and win her love.
FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE
Written by Shakespeare, William
When it was published in 1968, The Norton Facsimile set a new standard for scholarly accuracy. It was the first facsimile in which every page had been selected from a large number of copies in an attempt to find a clean, clear example with minimal show-through.
13 BY SHANLEY: THIRTEEN PLAYS
Written by Shanley, John Patrick
Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Includes: The Big Funk Savage in Limbo Danny & The Deep Blue Sea Welcome to the Moon The Red Coat Down & Out Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night Out West A Lonely Impulse of Delight Women of Manhattan The Dreamer Examines His Pillow Italian-American Reconciliation and Beggars in the House of Plenty.
FIRST LULU: BY FRANK WEDEKIND * ENGLISH VERSION OF THE PLAY BY ERIC BENTLEY
Written by Wedekind, Frank
"The complete script to Frank Wedekind's symphony - or rather a cacophony - of deotic sexual rhetorics. Eric Bentley's achievement here as translator is a beautifully playable and juicy English; his larger gift is the opening to us of what must be ranked as among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century theater." - Donald Lyons, The New Criterion
DOLL'S HOUSE AND OTHER PLAYS
Written by Ibsen, Henrik
Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.
DUCHESS OF MALFI, THE WHITE DEVIL, THE BROKEN HEART AND 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE (CRITICAL)
Written by Ford, John
A new volume of the greatest revenge tragedies of the seventeenth-century stage These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores power, sex, and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable anti-heroines.
COLLECTED PLAYS
Written by Miller, Arthur
To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America's greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works held up a mirror to America and its shifting values.
ALL THAT YOU'VE SEEN HERE IS GOD: NEW VERSIONS OF FOUR GREEK TRAGEDIES SOPHOCLES' AJAX, PHILOCTETES, WOMEN OF TRACHIS; AESCHYLUS' PROMETHEUS BOUND
Written by Aeschylus
These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medical personnel around the world.
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