The Female of The Species

$26.95

Margot Mason, a thinly veiled version of Germaine Greer, has writer’s block following publication of her groundbreaking polemic, The Cerebral Vagina, when in through the French windows steps one of her ex-students—with a gun. This play frequently says the unsayable and gets away with it under cover of the spiraling comedy.

Bird

$22.95

Ava and Tash are up on a cliff, looking out at the flocking birds and at their future. On the cusp of adulthood and about to leave the care home they've shared, the two friends road-test their impending freedom and living in the outside world.

Richard III

$16.95

In the aftermath of civil war, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, resolves to claw his way to political power at any cost. A master of manipulation, subtle wit and beguiling charm, he orchestrates his unlawful ascent by spinning a ruthless web of deceit and betrayal. His staunch ambition has horrifying consequences when, finding himself utterly alone and steeped in dread, he is forced to answer for his bloody deeds.

This official tie-in edition of Richard III was published alongside director Jamie Lloyd’s production for his Trafalgar Transformed season at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in 2014. It starred BAFTA Award-winning Martin Freeman as Richard III and Gina McKee as Queen Elizabeth. This volume includes the version of Shakespeare’s text performed in the production, as well as additional material including an exclusive rehearsal diary and an interview with the director.

Women in Theatre: Series I

$48.99

This four-DVD set contains 13 interviews by Newsday Theatre Critic Linda Winer with distinguished playwrights, directors, designers, producers and actors including Suzan-Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Wendy Wasserstein, Ruby Dee, Rosemary Harris, Audra McDonald, Elizabeth McCann, Carey Perloff, Heidi Ettinger, Julie Taymor, Jennifer Tipton, and Graciela Daniele, and a panel with Martha Lavey, Lois Smith, and Joan Allen from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Frankenstein

$22.95

All the more successful for staying faithful to the dark spirit of the original book, this adaptation includes notes on the first production and can be performed with a minimum of set and props, making it well suited for staging by schools and amateur theatre groups, as well as by professional companies.

Crushed Shells and Mud

$26.95

England trembles in the grip of a devastating epidemic. In a remote coastal village, quiet Derek waits for life to really begin. Then Lydia arrives. She burns brightly, but she is hiding something.

When Derek discovers her secret, they are both propelled into a strange new world of conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties, where terrifying forces test their courage and humanity.

Poppy & George

$20.95

It is 1919. The Great War is over and Poppy Wright arrives in London to make her mark on the world. In the East End, she finds work in Smith's tailor and costumiers workshop, where she falls for the dashing chauffeur George.

Emerging from the losses of war, Poppy finds a new role to play in forging a modern era.

Crush: The Musical

$20.95

It’s 1963 and the Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits from all walks of life. So it’s a crushing blow when the new headmistress turns out to be a tyrant with Victorian values and top of her hit list are the two sixth-formers accused of "Unnatural Behaviour" in the Art Room...

The Suitcase Kid

$24.95

Ten-year-old Andy used to live happily at mulberry cottage with her family and Radish the rabbit, who lives in Andy's pocket and shares all her secrets. But then it all went wrong. Includes production notes to indicate how the play can be staged even with minimal resources.

My Boy Jack

$20.95

Now a major TV film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig.

Staying Alive

$20.95

Mary had a son, now her son is dead. That is all. Jenn is hosting a dinner party, a chance to catch up. No pressure. Nothing big. Just old friends.

Darkly funny, and achingly tender, Staying Alive is about the loss of a child; about how in the wake of interminable loss, we find ways to connect and survive.

Northanger Abbey (Stage Version)

$22.95

“Full credit to adaptor and director Tim Luscombe for avoiding the more obvious titles and staging an earlier work that transfers more felicitously to the stage.”—Guardian

As she moves through the social whirl in the city of Bath and in the pleasant county seat of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland’s head is filled with the gothic fantasies of Mrs. Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho.

Yen

$26.95

Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban; playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by. Sometimes their mum Maggie visits, usually with empty pockets and empty promises. Then Jenny shows up. This Bruntwood Prizewinning play explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of growing up on your own.

Queen Anne

$20.95

1702. William III is on the throne and England is on the verge of war. Princess Anne is soon to become Queen, and her advisors vie for influence over the future monarch. Who can Anne turn to when even her most trusted friends seem bent on pursuing power? Contending with deceit and blackmail, Anne must decide where her allegiances lie.

Four Play

$26.95

Rafe and Pete have hit a rut. After seven and a half blissfully happy years, their lack of sexual experience is driving them apart.

When they proposition mutual friend Michael to help out with their problems - knowing full well Michael has his own partner Andrew what seems like a simple solution quickly spirals out of control.

Hedda Gabler

$20.95

Mark O'Rowe's fluid yet faithful adaptation of Ibsen's masterpiece premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in April 2015. A wife, a muse, a coward, a hereticHedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny?

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

$10.95

A burlesque of knight errantry and a parody of Heywood’s Four Prentice’s of London from the English Elizabethan dramatist.

Dances of Death

$20.95

A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.

Meet Edgar and Alice. Married for almost thirty years, theirs is a relationship of mutual explosive loathing. Strindberg's tale paints a compelling and bitterly funny portrait of a magnificently doomed couple, whose ongoing battle threatens not only their future, but that of their friends and children as well.

Howard Brenton's new version of Dances of Death includes both Part One and the rarely performed Part Two of this masterpiece of European theatre, condensed into a single two-act drama. The play premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, in May 2013.

"Ferociously intense... a howl of primitive power." - The Times

"A particularly excoriating exercise in psychological warfare... remarkable." - Telegraph

"A blistering account of a mildewed marriage." - Whatsonstage.com

"Howard Brenton has worked wonders... this fresh and exciting new version demands to be seen." - British Theatre Guide

Howard Brenton is a prolific playwright whose plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, RSC and Shakespeare's Globe among others. Other writing work includes collaborations with David Hare and thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks.

Shakespeare's Lost Play

$30.95

Many believe Cardenio, a play "lost" for centuries, to be the work of England's greatest dramatist. Gregory Doran, the Royal Shakespeare Company's new director, takes the reader on a fascinating search through the fog of literary history on his quest to discover and stage a missing masterpiece.

Pine

$20.95

’Tis the season to be jolly. But the employees at Christmas Pines are certainly not. Four recent grads would rather be anywhere else, but they're stuck counting Norwegian Spruce while listening to Christmas songs on repeat...

Pine explores the value of learning on the job, the rose-tinted expectations of recent graduates, and the inability to see the wood for the trees.

Russian Avant-Garde Theatre

$50.00

The creative radicalism in Russia's avant-garde movement transformed the cultural landscape as visionaries from several disciplines generated a vortex of innovative performance and design. The astounding body of work produced by Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sergei Eisenstein and Liubov Popova, among others, overturned traditions in art, music, literature and theatre.

Other People's Shoes

$30.95

Harriet Walter is well known for her performances at the Royal Court (Cloud Nine, Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce), the RSC (Nicholas Nickelby, Macbeth with Antony Sher) and the National Theatre (Arcadia), as well on television, where she played Amy on Unfinished Business and Harriet Vane in the Lord Peter Wimsey series. In this book, she uses her experience to illustrate the processes involved in performance.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

$22.95

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? This play imagines a world where we're forced to say less. It's about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact, and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Plays from the Arab World

$38.95

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. Includes Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine), Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco), The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon), and Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt).

Consensual

$24.95

An explosive play that explores what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.

Diane, Head of Year 11, hasn’t seen Freddie since that night six years earlier when he was fifteen.

She thinks he took advantage of her. He thinks she groomed him for months. Neither is sure. But when it comes to sex and consent, are there really
any blurred lines?

Writing Music for the Stage

$26.95

Providing essential advice and guidance on making a career in the performing arts.

Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) Ten-Minute Plays

$25.00

A collection of twenty-five short, powerful plays that pack a punch through a variety of genres and styles. Ideal for a range of readers from drama students to aspiring theatre practitioners, and for those working in community and professional theatres, Long Story Short gathers plays that create complete and moving stories that transcend the page in about ten minutes each.

Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) Ten-Minute Plays

The Encounter

$26.95

Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, this play traces a journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance. In 1969, a National Geographic photographer found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.

The Miser

$10.95

Drama Classics edition

Image of an Unknown Young Woman

$28.95

A woman in a yellow dress has been shot by the police. As a video goes viral, a revolution begins to stir.

Ali and Leyla are panicking they uploaded the footage; the authorities are after them. Yasmin is desperate to know if her mother is still alive. A woman in London wants to help. Everyone's life is about to change.

Try

$24.95

Three new plays by award-winning author Daniel MacIvor featuring generations of women as they come to terms with themselves and each other. In Communion, a recovering alcoholic and her estranged daughter try to negotiate a new relationship; Was Spring follows three women who suffered a tragic accident years ago; and Small Things explores how little differences keep us from understanding each other.

The James Plays

$40.95

Munro's vividly imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. Each play stands alone as a unique vision of a country tussling with its past and future; viewed together the trilogy creates a complex and compelling narrative of Scottish culture and nationhood.

Pop Star Series

$35.00

Neal Medlyn created a series of seven shows built around the music, lives, and personas of seven pop stars, ranging from Lionel Richie to Miley Cyrus to Insane Clown Posse to Michael Jackson, into a grand fairy tale of stardom, epic attempts, slippery narration, hope, and conflict, pulling from a wide range of intuitively related sources. Includes performance images.

Human Animals

$26.95

In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. The mice are scratching between walls, the pigeons are diseased and the foxes are beginning to rule the streets. The problem is growing. It's contagious. It has to be stopped, before it's too late. A darkly comic, dystopian drama from one of the UK’s most exciting young female dramatists.

Wendy & Peter Pan

$22.95

1908. Wendy Darling and her brothers sleep peacefully in the bedroom, as their parents bicker downstairs. In a sudden flurry, their window blows open, and into their lives tumbles a mischievous boy called Peter, followed by a very fractious fairy by the name of Tink.

With the aid of a little fairy dust, Wendy sees promise of an awfully big adventure.

Prodigal Son (TCG Edition)

$15.95

"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx... Prodigal Son is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath jokes and banter." -- Davide Cote, Time Out New York

Shanley chooses characters stretched to the breaking point between rage and love His are characters of obsessive passions who match those passions with hyper-melodic language.” --BOMB magazine

When a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx arrives at a private school in New Hampshire, two faculty members wrestle with how to help him adjust to his new environment. The boy is violent, brilliant, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. As with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Doubt, John Patrick Shanley has drawn on his personal experiences to create an explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction.

John Patrick Shanley is the author of Doubt, a parable (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play), Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination for Best Play), Defiance, Storefront Church, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Dirty Story, among many other plays. He wrote the teleplay for Live from Baghdad (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing of a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special) and the screenplays for Congo, Alive, Five Corners, Joe Versus the Volcano, Doubt, a parable (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Moonstruck (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).

Trade & Generations

$20.95

In Trade, Debbie Tucker Green puts an intriguing spin on the unease we feel as tourists in a country poorer than our own. She focuses on three black women on a Caribbean island: a hip young Londoner with a loud mouth and plenty of attitude, an older professional seemingly sensitive to her surroundings, and a resident native.

Drama Games: For Those Who Like To Say No

$22.95

Encourages reluctant participants to engage, collaborate, and develop not just skills for drama but skills for life. Following the ninety games and exercises aimed at developing core skills, the book offers scenarios for a series of improvisational challenges that test participants' abilities in mediation, communication, negotiation, assertiveness, and managing emotions.

Drama Games: For Those Who Like To Say No

Mary Barton

$20.95

Set in Manchester between 1837 and 1842, Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. It concerns Mary Barton, a mill worker’s daughter eager to rise through the ranks, and her father, who shoots dead the mill owner’s son. This adaptation offers a stirring narrative with real insight into the lives of the Victorian working classes.

Merit

$20.95

Spain, 2013. Against all odds, young graduate Sofia has got a job as PA to one of the wealthiest bankers in the country. But her mother has her doubts did Sofia give more than a good interview to get it? A subtle game of cat and mouse, split loyalties and questionable morals ensues.

Culture is the Body

$17.95

"From his artistic home in the small village of Toga Mura in the Japanese Alps, Tadashi Suzuki's influence has spread around the world, transcending cultural and political boundaries. His bold vision of what the theatre can be and what the theatre can do is both uncompromising and exceedingly generous. The SCOT company's groundbreaking productions and methods of training have inspired and continue to inspire generations of theatre artists and audiences. The day I first met Suzuki, the trajectory of my life was altered irrevocably. The very existence of SITI Company is due to Suzuki’s foresight, bigheartedness and determination." -Anne Bogart

"What takes my breath away most about Tadashi Suzuki's work is the precision and accuracy with which he manages time and space. For one-and-a-half to two hours, the use of sound, precise scene transitions and mammoth energy compressed through his singular directorial vision create a sustained power which blows the audience awaya shocking style requiring an exceptional attention and concentration from the viewer. His unique method of rigorous actor training has made him a grand master of the rarest variety, enabling him to maintain a company that continues to inspire the evolution of contemporary theatre in our ever-changing world." -Yuri Lubimov

"In America the theatre for the most part is naturalistic. People want to be comfortable. They want to identify immediately with the situation. They want everything finished, put in a box and wrapped up with a bow. But I believe, ideally, you want to leave the theatre still thinking about it, still questioning it. What I find exciting about Suzuki’s work is that we come into the theatre and we have a surprise. We have to think about what we have seen and we leave the theatre thinking about it. I believe that in a sense my work is similar to what Suzuki is doing in his work. Theatre that you have to rethink. It poses more questions than answers." -Robert Wilson

Renowned for his actor training methods, Tadashi Suzuki provides a thorough and accessible formulation of his ideas and beliefs in this new edition of his theater writings. One of the world's most revered theater directors, Suzuki is also a seminal thinker and practitioner whose work has had a profound influence on theater worldwide. This landmark collection provides a useful, provocative look at his philosophical and practical approaches to the stage. Culture is the Body is a complete revision of Suzuki's influential book The Way of Acting, featuring new essays and in a revised translation by Kameron Steele, a longtime collaborator of Suzuki's.

Tadashi Suzuki is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), the organizer of Japan's first international theater festival (Toga Festival), and the creator of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. Suzuki has articulated his theories in a number of books. He has taught his system of actor training in schools and theaters throughout the world. Besides productions with his own company, he has directed several international collaborations.

Oedipus

$10.95

The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.

Thérèse Raquin

$22.95

National Theatre production of this intense dramatization of Zola's steamy novel by a reputable adaptor.

Gilt

$26.95

Three of Scotland's top playwrights have combined forces on a single play.

The Deep Blue Sea (2016 edition)

$20.95

West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbors in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece is a classic study of forbidden love, suppressed desire and the fear of loneliness.

The Recruiting Officer

$10.95

Captain Plume arrives in Shrewsbury to recruit new soldiers. He falls for Sylvia - against her father's wishes. Rather than be sent away, Sylvia disguises herself as a man and so learns more about Plume than he would really like.

Born Bad

$20.95

Debbie Tucker Green is an urgent and distinctive new Black British writing talent.

"The overall effect is of having swallowed a scalding cup of triple espresso coffee in one gulp. The burn stays with you after you have left the theatre."—The Guardian

"Love it or loathe it, Tucker Green’s work is already making its mark."—The Independent

Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

$16.95

Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

"The finest work yet from this gifted writer."The New York Times

Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.

Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.

Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

How Love Is Spelt

$26.95

New city, new people, and a new life—Peta is moving on. Rejecting the comfort and security of Liverpool, she’s up for excitement and adventure in London. But going solo isn’t so simple. A fresh and disturbing new play from the sure-fire, ever-fruitful Bush Theatre in London.

Oil and Water

$17.95

In 1942, a ship carrying over a hundred soldiers ran aground off the Burin Peninsula, killing most of its men. Lanier Phillips, the sole African-American survivor of the wreck, is rescued and cared for by the locals, where he is not judged by the color of his skin. An honest legend that still resonates with power nearly seventy years later.

The Heresy of Love

$20.95

Inspired by the extraordinary life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Heresy of Love is a powerful drama about a clash between organized religion and personal faith, full of intrigue and danger, ruthless ambitions and illicit desire. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, The Heresy of Love was revived at Shakespeare’s Globe 2015.

2nd MAY 1997

$24.95

A sharp new play with an offbeat view of Labour's famous 1997 victory. The Tories, eighteen years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.

Insurrection: Holding History

$11.95

Insurrection: Holding History is a remarkable debut by a talented new theatre artist and winner of the 1998 Oppenheimer Award for Best New Playwright. The story of a young African-American graduate student transported back through time, with his 189-year-old great-great-grandfather, to Nat Turner’s infamous slave rebellion, this play is a metaphorical investigation of the scars of repression on both race and homosexuality in America. Robert O’Hara has received numerous awards for Insurrection, which was originally produced under his direction at The Joseph Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Surviving Actors Manual

$18.95

This comprehensive, practical manual covers the day-to-day, real-world essentials an actor needs to succeed in the industry. Honest, straightforward, and empowering, this book will help you unlock your potential and focus on being the best, most employableand, hopefully, successfulactor you can be. The essential, one-stop handbook for actors, with everything you need to survive and thrive.

Theatre in Scotland

$30.95

McMillan has been writing about theatre in Scotland for more than three decades. During that time she has borne witness to an extraordinary cultural and political renaissance in Scotland. Compiled by McMillan and director Philip Howard, this book is a panoramic history of modern Scottish theatre, reported from the frontlines, tracing the remarkable journey of Scottish theatre towards new self-confidence.

Tomcat

$22.95

In the not-too-distant future, the world is better than ever. Diseases and disorders have been wiped out. But Jess doesn’t belong. She slipped through the net and there’s something dangerous in her DNA, something that must be cured’. Charlie is watching Jess. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep society safe.

Dogeaters

$15.95

Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her bestselling novel about the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multi-layered tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes, "Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures . . . she takes aim at racism in the U.S. and develops in her dramas the themes of displacement and the search for belonging."

Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, novelist and playwright, born and raised in the Philippines. Her novels include Dogeaters (Penguin 1990) which was nominated for a National Book Award and The Gangster of Love (Penguin 1996); a short story collection, Danger and Beauty (City Lights 2002).

Singular Female Voices

$26.95

Three plays for one actress all featuring mothers on the edge. Jordan tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy rather than have him taken away by his abusive father. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret alternates stories of two women, both of whom lose their sons, one murdered, the other a runaway. Also includes Unsuspecting Susan.

Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field

$22.00

A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution

"Throughout the pages of this collection, a wide range of voices sound the joy and fury of being in the trenches of the volatile discourse of enacting, staging, and sharing the experience of performance. The cultural workers in this book seek a revolution of heart, mind, and spirit. They question who we are and consistently ask that hospitality and its uses be placed at the center of the shared theatrical experience."
Caridad Svich, from the Introduction

Contributors Include:
Tanuja Amarasuriya, Brian Bell, Deborah Brevoort, Alison Carey, Lenora Champagne, Clay McLeod Chapman, Lisa D’Amour, Nathan Alan Davis, J.J. El-Far, Larissa FastHorse, Andy Field, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Dipika Guha, Juli Hendren, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Melissa Hillman, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Michael Hoyt, Jeff Janisheski, Callie Kimball, Adrianne Krstansky Kevin Lawler, Corey Madden, Ana Margineanu, Diana Damian Martin,Justin Maxwell, Applied Mechanics, Elsa Menéndez, Richard Montoya, Steve Moore, Itamar Moses, Barney Norris, Kira Obolensky, Jules Odendahl-James, Sylvan Oswald, Katie Pearl, Bill Rauch, Thomas Riccio, Jay Ruby Madeline Sayet, Ashley Sparks, Caridad Svich, Carlton Turner, Roberto G. Varea, Dave White, Jake Witlen, Deborah Yarchun

TCG Sourcebooks is a new series which gathers resources and field conversations generated from current TCG programs. Each volume is published in both paperback and eBook editions and offers varied perspectives by and for theatre practitioners. Other titles in this series include Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance, edited by Caridad Svich.

Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel.

Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field

Nathan the Wise

$22.95

An 18th-century German play about religious tolerance in a terrific new translation.

The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II

$17.95

The second and concluding volume of Thornton Wilder's short plays.

The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II

The Messiah

$20.95

Just in time for Christmas, the distinguished historian and thespian, Desmond Olivier Dingle, and his incompetent, er, valiant assistant, Raymond Box, bring us their version of the greatest story ever told. Thrill to the mystery of the virgin birth (delicately portrayed by Raymond), gasp at the miracles (and let Desmond show you how they’re done) and sleep through, er, be intensely moved by the Sermon on the Hill.

The Winter's Tale

$20.95

A jealous king, an abandoned daughter, a prince hopelessly in love. Shakespeare’s timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production codirected by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh. It was performed at the Garrick Theatre in 2015, starring Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh. This official tie-in edition features exclusive additional content including cast interviews, articles, and more.

Indian Arm

$17.95

The Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfiecaught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned fatheris the pressure point that continuously gathers heat. When his suppressed tension begins to surface, an unspeakable tragedy sends the family into a visceral tailspin.

How to Disappear Completely & Never Be Found

$24.95

Extraordinary new play, winner of the John Whiting Award for Best New Play of 2006.

How to Disappear Completely & Never Be Found

Reckless and Other Plays

$19.95

The men and women of Craig Lucas’s plays abandon their illusions of safety and bravely enter wonderlands full of strangeness, cruelty and compassion. Equally attentive to the smallest details of human behavior and to the wellsprings of isolation and hope that inform it, Lucas’s lyrical precision creates timeless works of tragedy for the 21st century. This collection includes:

Reckless
"A perkily told sad story of a runaway waif-woman in the wide, wild world, Reckless remains a beguilingly sneaky crash course in the loss of innocenceWhen [Lucas] is at his best, and Reckless definitely qualifies as that, no one can beat him at plying cartoon cuteness to probe the fears that keep grownups awake at night.” Ben Brantley, New York Times
A satiric fantasy this comic odyssey, which is as dark as it is hilarious, is as wonderful and indelible as anything Frank Capra could have imagined.” Stark Insider
Reckless is a slickly warm, yet zany dark comedy, often lying just on the borders of the mundane. Characters and situations seem to exist as if in a waking dream, just a heartbeat away from dissolving into nothingness and making you wonder whether they ever really existed at all.” Talkin’ Broadway

Blue Window
Blue Windowhas something of the clarity of a Mozart quintet. It’s light, but it also seems to shed light. It’s clear, but it suggests mysteries. And it’s faultlessly spun.” Dan Sullivan, Los Angeles Times
Lucas identifies with his most victimized characters; the absurd comedy that permeates most of these works is the result of a victim's paranoid sense of humor.” Chicago Reader

Stranger
Crackling! Stranger has powerful heights of excitementit’s the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a collision that sends off sparks.” Michael Feingold, Village Voice
The ever-questing author of Prelude to a Kiss and The Dying Gaul here presents an extreme portrait of a couple that suggests that at the heart of all relationships are the urges to torture and be hurt. Whatever role you choose, it seems, there is fear and loathing in love, much of it self-directed.” Ben Brantley, New York Times
Chill-inducing! A stranger play than Stranger we are not likely to see anytime soon There is a breathtaking fearlessness to Lucas’ writing here.” Variety

Craig Lucas is a playwright, screenwriter and director. His plays include Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Singing Forest and Small Tragedy. His screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists and The Dying Gaul, which he also directed. Mr. Lucas’ awards include the L.A. Drama Critics Award, an OBIE Award for Best Play and Best Director, and the Excellence in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

An Ideal Husband

$10.95

Wilde's subtle satire of the British hypocrisy of the late 1800s toys with the vulnerability of public figures and the powerful playing card of dirty secrets. An Ideal Husband portrays the delicate balance between righteousness, love, and betrayal, and serves it up with a generous smattering of wit and elegance.
Recently filmed with Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

$26.95

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror story, this dramatic adaptation shows the transformation of the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into the fiendish Mr Hyde. When Jekyll discovers a drug that can transform him, he becomes able to unleash the dark side of his nature onto the streets of Victorian London. But he soon discovers the price of his double life. What are the themes? The struggle between good and evil, the conscious and unconscious, family relationships,Victorian society and morality. Teaching points With one actor taking the roles of both Jekyll and Hyde, the play allows pupils to more easily understand that these characters are 'one' person. The play is suitable for use either at Key Stage 3, or to support the study of the novel at Key Stage 4.

A Number

$14.95

Caryl Churchill, hailed by Tony Kushner as "the greatest living English language playwright," has turned her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloninghow might a man feel to discover that he is only one in a number of identical copies. And which one of him is the original. . . ?

Churchill’s harrowing bioethics fable leaves us with a number of things to chew on.” Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago

A Number confirms Churchill’s status as the first dramatist of the 21st century. On the face of it, it is human cloning Like all Churchill’s best plays, A Number deals with both the essentials and the extremities of human experience The questions this brilliant, harrowing play asks are almost unanswerable, which is why they must be asked.” Sunday Times

Caryl Churchill’s magnificent new play only last an hour but contains more drama, and more ideas, than most writers manage in a dozen full-length works.” Daily Telegraph

Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Stanley

$22.95

A new play about Stanley Spencer, the wayward genius of modern British painting.

Choir Boy

$16.95

"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."The Guardian

"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."Daily News

"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor."The Village Voice

The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school's legendary gospel choir, but can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? Known for his unique brand of urban lyricism, Tarrell Alvin McCraney follows up his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays with this affecting portrait of a gay youth trying to find the courage to let the truth about himself be known. Set against the sorrowful sounds of hymns and spirituals, Choir Boy premiered at the Royal Court in London before receiving its Off-Broadway premiere in summer 2013 to critical and popular acclaim.

Tarell Alvin McCraney is author of The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet. Other works include Wig Out!, set in New York's drag clubs, and The Breach, which deals with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His awards include the 2009 Steinberg Playwrights Award and the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.

Girls and Dolls

$24.95

For Emma and Clare, 1980 was the summer they met at the swings, the summer they built a tree house and the summer a young mother and her infant daughter moved into number fourteen. Now in their thirties, Emma and Clare struggle to come to terms with the chain of devastating events that began that summer, to understand what they did, what they became and how they were judged.

Firebird

$26.95

Tia’s mouthy attitude and confident swagger mask the vulnerability in a fourteen-year-old girl whose tough start in life draws her to AJ. Older, good-looking and charismatic, he shows her a kindness that she’s never known. Kindness that comes with a price...

Phil Davies’ debut play premiered at Hampstead Downstairs, London, in 2015, in a production directed by Edward Hall.

Playing the Victim

$20.95

Set in a city somewhere in central Russia, scenes between a disaffected 30-something and his bored and boring parents alternate with scenes showing the reenactment by the police of various real-life crimes. New play by the authors of Terrorism. The authors are brothers of Russian and Iranian descent who live in central Russia.

The Enchantment

$26.95

The mesmeric play by the woman who was reputedly a model for Ibsen and Strindberg.

Harlequinade / All On Her Own

$20.95

Harlequinade follows a classical theatre company whose intrigues and dalliances are revealed with increasingly calamitous consequences in an affectionate celebration of the lunatic art of putting on a play.

A powerful one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.

The Realistic Joneses

$14.95

Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as The Realistic Joneses do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever, really... Mr. Eno’s voice may be the most singular of his generation.” -Charles Isherwood, New York Times

As usual, Eno’s dialogue is a marvel of compression and tonal control, trivial chitchat flipping into cosmic profundity with striking ease... There’s much to savor: the dry but meaningful banter, the joy of humans sharing time and space, battling the darkness with a joke or silence. Life in Enoland isn’t what you’d call realistic it’s more real than that.” -David Cote, Time Out New York

A macabre and melancholy yet strangely delightful comedy... In The Realistic Joneses the world is familiar and, then again, very scary. It’s also weird and cruel and profound in all sorts of unexpected places as sad as life but a whole lot funnier.” -Linda Winer, Newsday

A funny yet poignant play... Eno long ago staked his claim as a linguistic hipster who reimagines the absurdist likes of Beckett and Albee for our post-Seinfeld age... Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,’ we are told in Beckett, and so it is with this very fine play where laughter exists a heartbeat, or heartbreak, away from tears.” -Matt Wolf, Telegraph (UK)

Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, are two suburban couples who have more in common than their identical last names. This existential comedy, pitched in Will Eno’s singular voice, finds the darkness, sweetness and hilarity in our fleeting and ordinary days, as we seek to reveal ourselves, and conceal ourselves, often in the same minute. Sometimes there are only short-term answers to life’s eternal questions, but all four Joneses, like all of us, are going to try their best, in very different ways.

buckets

$24.95

Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you deal with the fact that time always runs out? Across thirty-three interconnected scenes, buckets swings through a kaleidoscopic world of sadness and happiness, illness and health, youth and experience, kissing and crying, singing and dying.

The Working Actor

$26.95

"Every day do at least one thing that might lead to work, and then get on with living your life." With this mantra in mind, Chairman of London's Actors Centre, Paul Clayton, presents a series of invaluable exercises for the newly graduated professional actor to improve their chances of employment.

Villon and Other Plays

$17.95

"It's easy to see what brings actors back [to Mednick's work]. It's the rhythms, the wonderfully tortured characters, the dialogue that begs an actor to tease out the nuance in the lyrical poetry."Anthony Byrnes, KCRW "Behind the Curtain," from the introduction

Four new plays from the Off-Off Broadway pioneer and Obie-award winner Murray Mednick, including the fifteenth-century historical tragicomedy Villon, reveal a master at the top of his game.

Lela & Co.

$20.95

A young girl is trapped in an increasingly tiny world. In the beginning was the mattress. Gradually, other little changesmore bolts on the front door; the gun; the locked cupboard. And she knew in her heart that change was bad. Based on true stories from around the world, this is a startling debut play that looks at the courage, strength, and perseverance of women in conflict zones.

art is (Speaking Portraits)

$16.00

This new volume in the Performance Ideas series is drawn from the ongoing video work art is/poetry is/music is (Speaking Portraits), which features over 1000 artistspainters, poets, musicians, dancers, actors, video-/filmmakersin eleven countries saying what art is. art is offers an intimate view of seventy of those engaged in art as performance. Single-frame images, accompanied by individual artist statements, capture moments of high intensity from Marina Abramovic, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Jonah Bokaer, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Thurston Moore, Gary Hill, Vito Acconci, Archie Shepp, Joan Jonas, Anthony Braxton, Ann Hamilton, and many more. George Quasha writes in his Introduction: Listening to so many artists, closely and over many years, has taught me further configurative dimensions of performative mind. Close listening/viewingnon-interfering attentionnurtures art, just as it does people, animals, maybe even plants.”

Outside Mullingar (TCG Edition)

$15.95

"In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as absolute as it is illusory."BOMB magazine

Outside Mullingar is about the romance of Anthony and Rosemary, neighbors in rural Ireland, who are nearing their middle years. It is by turns poetic, uplifting, dark and funny as hell. Anthony is an introverted farmer and Rosemary is the woman who vows to have him at all costs. When Anthony's father threatens to disinherit his son, Rosemary steps into the middle of a land feud and family eccentricities beyond what one might imagine. On the brink of romantic catastrophe, this one-of-a-kind Irish heroine fights against time and mortality in hopes of securing her dream of love.

"Outside Mullingar is a charmer of a play... In [Shanley's] first work set in Ireland, he lovingly tends the roots and tills the soil of his ancestry, spinning a tale suffused with melancholy humor and a deep yearning for heart, home, land, faith and a sense of belonging.... Shanley has a poet’s ear for the lyrical music and twinkly humor of their dialogue." - Hollywood Reporter

"Mullingar is Shanley’s best play since Doubt, and like that hit from a decade ago, it’s lean, dialectical and packed with wise saws and aphoristic gems." - Time Out New York

"Shanley once again reveals both a touch of the poet and a fine gift of gab." - NY1

"Wholly diverting... Mr. Shanley's finest work since Doubt... a softhearted comedy freckled with dark reflections on the unsatisfactory nature of life and the thorns of love." - New York Times

John Patrick Shanley is the author of Doubt: A Parable (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance and Storefront Church, among many others. He wrote the teleplay for Live from Baghdad (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special), and the screenplays for Doubt (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay), Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Moonstruck (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).

The Jungle Book

$22.95

“This exhilarating production ticks all the boxes for families looking for an uplifting treat.”—TimeOut

“Paterson has mastered the art of injecting new zest and color into classic children's stories.”—The London Times

Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales in an acclaimed stage adaptation by Stuart Paterson.

Holding the Man

$28.95

Based on the much loved book by Timothy Conigrave, adapted for the stage by one of Australia’s leading young playwrights.

The Liquid Plain (TCG Edition)

$14.95

“American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain—by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed.”—Time Out New York

On the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present collide and flow into the next generation. Acclaimed playwright Naomi Wallace’s newest work brings to life a group of people whose stories have been erased from history. Told with lyricism and power, The Liquid Plain was awarded the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play. This sweeping historical saga has enjoyed acclaimed runs at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Signature Theatre in New York.

Naomi Wallace is a playwright from Kentucky. Her plays, which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Hard Weather Boating Party , and The Liquid Plain. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), Joseph Kesselring Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Obie Award, Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New American Play, MacArthur Fellowship, and the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

Classical Monologues for Women

$26.95

From school exams to professional castings, all actors must perform audition pieces. This volume contains over forty-five monologues drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theater. Each piece is prefaced with an information panel guiding readers toward the perfect piece for them.

Shibboleth

$28.95

Development. Hotels, spas, Nando’s, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers.

A group of construction workers is building an extension to the Peace Wall that separates Them-ens from Us-ens. When Polish worker Yuri’s daughter starts having serious problems with her boyfriend, they rally round in support. But good intentions can easily go too far

Abandonment

$26.95

First play by the greatly admired novelist.

A Doll's House

$14.95

The character of Nora has fascinated me for a long time but I felt that the play, in the form I knew, was too dated. I would not have been interested in accepting the part in the Archer version, because the lines were too stiffly artificial and lacked conviction. The Thornton Wilder adaptation, however, has restored life and credibility to a drama, which is still one of the finest efforts in our theatrical literature.” Ruth Gordon, Cincinnati Times-Star, October 27, 1937

It’s a thrill to encounter this collaboration between these two pioneers of modern theater. Wilder has created a brilliant version of Ibsen’s great play, which is taut, conversational and pulsing with life nearly eighty years after it was written. Of course, Wilder worked on A Doll’s House while writing Our Town. There are incredible echoes between Nora and Emilytwo young women who poignantly confront their own mortality and must say good-bye to life as they know it.” Arin Arbus, director, A Doll’s House, Theatre for a New Audience, May 1, 2016

Not staged until 2016, since its record-breaking Broadway premiere starring Ruth Gordon in 1937, this is the first publication of the adaptation of Ibsen’s classic drama as revitalized through the shrewd lens of American drama master Thornton Wilder. With clarifying dialogue, Wilder uproots this classic from Norway and funnels it through an American lens. The marriage of Ibsen’s naturalistic style melds with Wilder’s knack for emotional nuance to create a demonstrative edition of the revered A Doll’s House.

Henrik Ibsen is often referred to as the father of modern realism. He is most well known for his plays Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Master Builder, The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, and An Enemy of the People.

Thornton Wilder is considered to be one of the most accomplished American playwrights and novelists of the twentieth century. He received three Pulitzer Prize Awards for Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth (1943) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928). His novel The Eighth Day received The National Book Award in 1968. Our Town is the most-produced American play in the world.

The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays

$19.95

“Paula Vogel’s plays wake me up. Profoundly. They jump off the page and right at you. They go for the throat with enormous humanity, humor, and intelligence. Her plays are at once simple and complex, terrifying and encouraging, funny and heartbreaking.” –Anne Bogart

The first major collection of Paula Vogel’s work surveys a remarkable decade of her writing for the stage. Vogel’s singular voice is exhilarating, comic and heartbreaking in its examination of such contemporary issues as the feminization of poverty, the nontraditional family, the AIDS epidemic, domestic violence and pornography.

Contains:

The Baltimore Waltz

And Baby Makes Seven

The Oldest Profession

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief

Hot ’N’ Throbbing

Albert Speer

$26.95

Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler’s architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. David Edgar’s panoramic adaptation of Gitta Sereny’s definitive and magisterial biography tells the epic story of a man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century.

The Wanderers

$17.95

A sweeping, episodic drama spanning thirty-six years in the lives of two families, The Wanderers explores the haunting effects of an inescapable war that surpasses borders and generations. It’s 1978 and Aman and Mariam have fled to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of life in war-torn Afghanistan.

Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays

$20.95

One of the best playwrights our country, and our language, has produced.” Tony Kushner

Quirky, disturbing, and inexplicably beautiful theatrical poetry.” Cary M. Mazer, Philadelphia City Paper

Congdon writes like a woman possessed.” Nels Nelson, New York Daily News

An immensely inventive and challenging writer, Constance Congdon is one of America’s finest playwrights, endowed with great compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility. Throughout the plays in her first collection, she demonstrates a range rare in writers in any age, from a somber meditation on life in the post-nuclear age (No Mercy) to madcap social satire (Losing Father’s Body), from an epic historical exploration of love and sexual identity (Casanova) to her most popular play to date (Tales of the Lost Formicans), acclaimed by William A. Henry III of Time magazine as A travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space If not the best new play of recent years, surely the most imaginative.”

Constance Congdon’s plays have been produced throughout the United States and abroad. She has received playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations, and is the winner of Oppenheimer/Newsday, W. Alton Jones and L/ Arnold Weissberger awards. Congdon, an alumna of New Dramatists, currently teaches playwriting at Amherst College.

Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays

Once

$13.95

"A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm."Vogue

"It may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original's raw fragility."?Hollywood Reporter

Retaining the film's popular music and lyrics, acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh adapts this charming tale of a complicated romance between an Irish street musician and a young Czech immigrant for the stage. A hit musical Off-Broadway, Once premiered on Broadway in spring 2012 to rave reviews.

Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award-winning plays, including Penelope, The Walworth Farce, and The New Electric Ballroom. He also co-wrote the film Hunger, which won the Camera d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are the stars and songwriters of the 2006 film Once, for which they won an Academy Award for Best Song. The two comprise the musical folk-rock duo The Swell Season, which is currently touring the United States. A documentary film of the duo, The Swell Season, was an official selection of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Hansard is also a member of the Irish band The Frames and Irglová is a classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist.

The Production Notebooks

$18.95

Behind the scenes of many significant U.S. productions today, is the newest member of the creative team—the "dramaturg." Now, for the first time, four of America's finest dramaturgs, under the editorial direction of a fifth, detail their efforts in revealing diary form, offering comprehensive histories of the development of four major productions by outstanding not-for-profit theatres, exploring the dramaturgical, directorial, design, acting and administrative aspects of mounting contemporary and classic plays.

The Clytemnestra Project

(based on works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides)

Garland Wright, director; Jim Lewis, dramaturg

The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN

Danton's Death

(by Georg Büchner, translated by Robert Auletta)

Robert Wilson, director; Christopher Baker, dramaturg

Alley Theatre, Houston, TX

The Love Space Demands

(by Ntozake Shange, adapted from her poetry)

Talvin Wilks, director; Shelby Jiggetts, dramaturg

Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick, NJ

Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream

(based on the film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert)

Dominique Serrand, director; Paul Walsh, dramaturg

Company created by Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis, MN

Swallow

$20.95

Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another, if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct.

Painful yet playful, poignant but uplifting, Stef Smith’s Swallow takes a long, hard look at the extremes of everyday life. Premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A Master Builder

$14.95

"Wallace Shawn is one of the most complex and uncompromising moralists of the American theater." - Ben Brantley, New York Times

"At once the U.S.'s most profound and overlooked playwright." - David Hare

This translation and adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder Solness by Wallace Shawn, a writer known for his own bleakly hilarious and provocative plays, was used by legendary director André Gregory during fifteen years of work on a theatrical production which, instead of being produced as a play, was made into a film by Jonathan Demmea film that is an utterly contemporary vision of Ibsen's classic play.

Innovation in Five Acts

$22.00

Editor Caridad Svich has gathered forty-one essays from admired theater professionals that comprise a volume of inspiring and innovative techniques for creating theater. Inside are words of wisdom and advice from experienced playwrights, directors, performers, teachers, dramaturgs, artistic directors and founderseach sharing the creative challenges and triumphs of developing original works for today's stages.

"In this edited collection, more than forty practitioners and scholars voice their whimsical, fiery, deeply impassioned, political, funny, sometimes elegiac and stinging words prompted by a call to write about "artistic innovation."

With intelligence, thoughtfulness, rigor and wit, author after author offer their considered take on the subject, unlocking new perspectives, unearthing old ones, and in general, doing what artists do best when they are walking on ground they trust and among colleagues who are not sitting before them in continual and sometimes stultifying judgment--and that is, open our eyes, hearts and minds again."
- Caridad Svich, from the Introduction

Contributors Include:
Ayad Akhtar; Deborah Asiimwe; Elaine Avila; Arthur Bartow; Gary D. Beckman; John Biguenet; Daniel Brunet; Leila Buck; Maddy Costa; Dominic D'Andrea; Pedro de Senna; Julie Felise Dubiner; Daniel Gallant; Michael John Garces; Anne Garcia-Romero; Jim Hart; David Herskovits; Rachel Jendrzejewski; John Jesurun; Mariana Carreno King; Zac Kline; Aaron Landsman; E.M. Lewis; Catherine Love; Oliver Mayer; Jeff McMahon; Emily Mendelsohn; John Moletress; Kali Quinn; Katie Pearl; Jeremy Pickard; Duska Radosavljevic; Ian Rowlands; Lisa Schlesinger; Howard Shalwitz; August Schulenburg; Mark Schultz; Andy Smith; Octavio Solis; Saviana Stanescu; Caridad Svich; Chris Wells; Heather Woodbury; Stephen Wrentmore

John (TCG Edition)

$30.00

"Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light . . . By not rushing thingsby letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfallBaker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be "postmodern."The New Yorker

"John, like any great play, raises a lot of questionsnot just about the human experience, but also about the state of contemporary theater, it doesn't provide many answers; it is not the playwright's responsibility to do so In John she co-opts the viewer for her own aesthetic use, heightening the tension onstage and deepening the quiet relationships between her characters. Through John, she displays an understanding that the audience is part of the theatrical experience, an inevitability as certain as a Chekhovian gun."Slate

The week after Thanksgiving. A bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching.

The description by the playwright of the setting is simple but Annie Baker's compelling new work is revolutionary in theme and structure and challenges the boundaries of what theatre can be. A kind of magical super-realism permeates throughout this quietly evolving tale with both the actors and the audience fully vested together in a mesmerizing exploration of the frailty and loneliness of human experience.

Annie Baker's works include The Flick (Pulitzer Prize), The Aliens (Obie Award), Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award), Nocturama, and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Her work has been produced at more than a hundred theaters in the United States and in more than a dozen countries. Recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Steinberg Playwright Award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award.