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When Karin meets Markus, she can hardly believe her luck—perhaps with good reason. Equal parts romantic comedy and spy thriller, The Romeo Initiative follows a West German government secretary as she investigates her suspicions about her new boyfriend, who may have come from East Germany with ulterior motives.

A unique theatrical endeavor comprised of plays written by four of Canada's most celebrated playwrights. The series reveals the shocking story of a mill's past, exposing the secrets of the land's inhabitants as the plays jump through time. Includes Now We Are Brody, The Huron Bride, The Woods, and Ash.

Winner of the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.

After learning of the death of her former husband, Margaret begins to unearth the blissful and painful memories of their marriage, all through the lens of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Bold and poetic, It Is Solved by Walking is an intimate portrait of a writer making her way back to poetry one step at a time.

This anthology brings together all nine scripts from the 2014 Humana Festival of New American Plays: Partners by Dorothy Fortenberry; The Grown-Up by Jordan Harrison; The Christians by Lucas Hnath; brownsville song (b-side for tray) by Kimber Lee; the Anne Bogart, Julia Wolfe, and SITI Company collaboration Steel Hammer; with original text by Kia Corthron, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Regina Taylor, as well as Remix 38 (a collection of short pieces) and ten-minute plays.

As the community forges through physical and psychological darkness, Christopher Morris reveals that a past most have long forgotten can still have its repercussions. Darkness abounds in this story of a man long thought lost, shedding light on an isolated northern Canadian community whose struggles many would choose to ignore.

A new play by an award-winning playwright and one of Canada's most accomplished playwrights and performers follows five classmates in town for their thirtieth high school reunion. The more alcohol that's consumed, the closer the friends come to confronting their darkest secrets.

This is the first volume of published plays by John Jesurun, one of the most innovative writer/director/media artists in America. The volume includes Shatterhand Massacree, Slight Return, Snow, and Firefall, demonstrating the range of the author’s work over two decades.

A major work of scholarship on the internationally celebrated video artist Gary Hill, this volume includes many of the important critical essays on his work over more than two decades, along with interviews with Hill, his own writings on video, and two dozen illustrations.

Includes: Motherhood 2000 by Adrienne Kennedy, The Law of Remains by Reza Abdoh, Pangean Dreams: A Shamanic Journey by Rachel Rosenthal, Enter The Night by Maria Irene Fornes, Two Altars, Ten Funerals (All Souls) by Erik Ehn, A Girl’s Guide to the Divine Comedy by Shelley Berc, Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony by The Wooster Group, The Mind King by Richard Foreman and Cellophane by Mac Wellman.

“You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper.”—The New York Times

Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time and place and spirit, linking a young dancer and her relatives in Cuba. Also includes Terra Incognita and Manual for a Desperate Crossing.

The Other American Drama proposes an alternative to the received history of American drama, the Eugene O’Neil/Arthur Miller/August Wilson line of development so familiar to readers of standard drama surveys. Robinson’s book discusses Gertrude Stein, Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy and Richard Foreman as essential members of modern American theater rather than as curious fringe figures. It also rethinks such familiar figures as Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard.

In this collection of his film writings, Kauffmann discusses films released after 1993, including films from major established directors, works from the iconoclastic world of independent cinema and the best of world cinema. In other essays, he muses on cinematic adaptations of Mozart’s operas, explores changing public attitudes toward film as an art form, looks at the possibilities of accurately dramatizing the Holocaust and recalls important figures in film history.

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, and produced on stages across the world, The Monument is a searing exploration of the nature of forgiveness. It is a profound classic that examines the paradox of the soldier today and the ambiguities of morality and justice.

“He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist.”—Mel Gussow, The New York Times

This collection includes Albanian Softshoe, Mister Original Bugg, Cleveland, Bad Penny, Cellophane, Three Americanisms, Fnu Lnu, Girl Gone, Hypatia, The Sandalwood Box and Cat’s Paw. Written between 1983 and 1998, they showcase Wellman’s ongoing exploration of the limits of language and the consequences of humanity in the postmodern world.

This is the play that established a reputation for the playwright as a daring chronicler of the urban underclass, available here as a revised version.

Parts three and four of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's grand theatrical presentation of an unremarkable life, of which Charles Isherwood of the New York Times wrote, "Entrancing, maddening, heartbreaking, sidesplitting, even, in its humble way, awe-inspiring. . . . An ambitious, brilliantly executed production from one of the most innovative theater companies in New York."

Such Creatures portrays Judith Thompson's raw style of storytelling and showcases her incessant quest to understand the dark, neglected, and troubling corners of society. Both unbelievably cruel and unbelievably human, Such Creatures is an awe-inspiring portrayal of the breadth of the human spirit.

Two forays into the damp, weird soil of ghosts, curses, and the roots and cousins of American language. Ich, Kurbisgeist, an agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe'en, is written in an oolde and whheurd variant of Amer-English. The three paranormal playlets of The Secret Death of Puppets are composed in "Fraunch," English, and a Nordic-Latin homonculus language of the undead.

Two men strike a deal, and Rekha, a young village woman, suddenly finds herself sold into prostitution. Confined to a Calcutta brothel, Rekha must learn to shape her own identity in this provocative and moving play about the human spirit's ability to triumph in the face of corruption and suffering.

A wide variety of award-winning plays, ideal for scene study or just a good read. Includes excerpts from The December Man by Colleen Murphy, Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte, and The Real McCoy by Andrew Moodie.

The second episode finishes the musical portion of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's epic tale generated from the single simple question, asked of a friend: "Can you tell me your life story?" The Life and Times cycle enjoyed a widely acclaimed run in New York's Under the Radar Festival in January 2013, produced by Soho Rep, New York City.

Erin Shields' award-winning play is a shocking, uncompromising examination of the horrors of war, giving voice to a woman long ago forced into silence, and placing a spotlight on millions of female victims who have been silenced through violence, delivered through the lens of Greek tragedy.

This is the first episode of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's decalogue, a portrait of an unremarkable life. An epic narrative along the lines of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Life and Times is a deep map of memory that takes us on a journey into our own forgotten history. The first episode is a musical, using parts of a verbatim transcript of over sixteen hours of recorded telephone conversations as libretto.

This volume collects two plays by Erin Courtney, A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost. The Obie Award–winning Map is a symmetrical play: part interview, part comedy, part horror story. Courtney's plays unfold in a delicate dance of pattern and narration; they ring out their images and meanings as a sequence of bells: complicating, harmonizing, and remapping their senses as they run their idiosyncratic course.

This volume includes The Mayor of Baltimore and its companion piece Anthem from Kristen Kosmas, whose writing invents its poetry from the blunt, the found, and the discarded. A coterie of friends and strangers gather to celebrate a modest electoral victory. Oblique poetry alternates with the syncopated clatter of small talk. A brokenhearted refrain of disappointment underscores, and a tiny aria of self-revelation hangs in the empty space after the guests leave.

This anthology brings together all nine scripts from the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays, including I Will Be Gone by Erin Courtney, The Glory of the World by Charles Mee, The Roommate by Jen Silverman, and Pig Iron Theatre Company's I Promised Myself to Live Faster.

Three plays from a company known for making unprecedented, original work that cuts across the physical and the textual. In using both archaic and invented modes of theatrical entertainment, Pig Iron skillfully creates theater generated equally by written text and physical intensity and peculiarity. Includes Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Chekhov Lizardbrain, Gentleman Volunteers, and an introduction by the company.

The Greek Playwright outlines the major playwrights of the ancient Greek era, their major plays, and the impact they had on our modern understanding of drama. Clem Martini weaves his direct, informative, and entertaining style through centuries of dramatic evolution to show us exactly what the first dramatists have to say to contemporary playwrights.

New Europe: Plays from the Continent is a collection of seven plays that explore issues of terrorism, immigration, youth, globalization, families, and post-communist culture in the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and expansion of the European Union. It includes: Igor Bauersima, norway.today (Switzerland); Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, The Death of the Squirrel-Man (Poland); Goran Stefanovski, Hotel Europa (Macedonia); Petr Zelenka, Tales of Ordinary Madness (Czech Republic); Roland Schimmelpfennig, Push Up 1-3 (Germany): Juan Mayorga, Hamlyn (Spain); Jon Fosse, Sa ka la (Norway).

Based on the novel by Leon Rooke. With four legs and a keen eye, Hooker, Shakespeare's dog, tells the story of how the Stratford rogue became the world's most famous playwright, and how in the Elizabethan era, lust, love, and lives collide—and it is anyone's guess who is top dog.

Act French includes Adramelech’s Monologue by Valère Novarina, A.W.O.L. by Olivier Cadiot, 11 Septembre 2001/11 September 2001 by Michel Vinaver, Pumpkin On The Air by Michèle Sigal, We Were Sitting on The Shores of the World. . . by José Pliya, Cut by Emmanuelle Marie, and Inventories by Philippe Minyana.

This volume includes: Failure to Thrive by Neena Beber; Terra Incognita by Maria Irene Fornes; Steak Knife Bacchae by Joe Goodrich; Heads by Murray Mednick; The Chemistry of Change by Marlane Meyer; The Tight Fit by Susan Mosakowski; Disgrace by John O ’Keefe; Understanding the Dead by John Steppling; and Demonology by Kelly Stuart.

The Padua Hills Playwrights Festival ran from 1978 through 1995 in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains and at venues across the Los Angeles area, attracting theatrical talents such as Sam Shepard, Jon Robin Baitz, Maria Irene Fornes, John Steppling, Kelly Stuart and David Henry Hwang. The Festival was resurrected in 2001 by artistic director Guy Zimmerman.

Inspired by theatrical writings of Antonin Artaud, Rosenthal’s performance art blends music, words, images and dance into ferociously moving works—a theater of cruelty tempered by love. Featuring critical commentary, interviews and photographs of Rosenthal’s performances and collecting for the first time a selection of her writings (including the script of Rachel’s Brain), this book captures the voice of a unique American artist.

“The monologue is like the tip of one of those seasonal icebergs that float so majestically down the Newfoundland coastline. They catch one’s breath, but underneath lies the other nine-tenths of the beast, an ice-blue bedrock, glowing as if with an inner light.”—from the introduction by David Ferry

An anthology of modern Canadian monologues for the male voice, for use in classes and auditions, or for general interest.

Joe & Betty brings us into the darkly comic world of an impoverished, disintegrating family in the Catskills of the 1950s. 16 Routines takes us on a surreal comic journey into a panicked mind of an actor who has forgotten his lines. Mrs. Feuerstein depicts a Holocaust survivor plotting revenge on a German couple by writing them into her play.

Brooklyn-born Murray Mednick founded the Padua Hills Playwrights workshop/Festival (now Padua Playwrights) in 1978. He was honored with the American Theater Critic’s Association Best New Play Citation for Joe & Betty in 2002, and has received two Rockefeller grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE and several Bay Area Critics Awards.

Six plays about life on the edge by one of America’s leading avant-garde playwrights and a defining voice of his generation. Mednick is writing at the top of his form. Includes: Are You Lookin’?, Scar, Heads, Skinwalkers, Dictator, Switchback and Shatter ‘n’ Wade.

This is a collection of stage plays by some of Canada’s leading playwrights. Included are: R.H. Thomson’s The Lost Boys, David French’s Soldier’s Heart, Stephen Massicotte’s Mary’s Wedding, Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Dancock’s Dance, Vern Thiessen’s Vimy, Margaret Hollingsworth’s Ever Loving, Jason Sherman’s None is Too Many, and Marie Clements’ Burning Vision.

Winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script

Three men—a great American playwright, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler—find themselves together for two days in a hotel room. This is the story about the nature of life in a created world.

"Soulographie is an audacious and devastating achievement, sustained by Erik Ehn's commitment to lyricism in the face of brutality. The strongest characters in his cycle resist pain and shame with their inviolate imaginations. In metaphor they achieve grace."—Marc Robinson

This epic volume presents the seventeen plays of Erik Ehn's Soulographie: Our Genocides, which demonstrate Ehn's approach to violence and brutality through "the marriage of heaven and hell."