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One Day When I Was Lost

par James Baldwin ...

Collections series Vintage International
**A rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on the bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X. • "Sharp.... Precise.... There is no questioning the depth and sincerity of Baldwin's admiration for Malcolm X." —**The Times Literary SupplementSon of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the ... En savoir plus

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**A rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on the bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X. • "Sharp.... Precise.... There is no questioning the depth and sincerity of Baldwin's admiration for Malcolm X." —**The Times Literary SupplementSon of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the
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American Moor

par Keith Hamilton Cobb ...

Collections series Modern Plays
The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order.Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of Shakespeare's character Othello, offering up a host of insights that are by turns introspective and ... En savoir plus

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The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order.Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of Shakespeare's character Othello, offering up a host of insights that are by turns introspective and
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Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

par Suzan-Lori Parks ...

"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most ... En savoir plus

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"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most
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A Raisin in the Sun

par Lorraine Hansberry ...

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the ... En savoir plus

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"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the
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Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays (Revised Edition)

par Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...

Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to ... En savoir plus

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Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of socio-political realities when the Lafayettes gather at a former plantation home to
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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

par Ntozake Shange ...

Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, ... En savoir plus

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Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited,
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The Age of Innocence: The Original 1920 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Edith Wharton Classics)

par Edith Wharton ...

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the ... En savoir plus

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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the
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Fences

par August Wilson ...

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the ... En savoir plus

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From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the
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The Piano Lesson

par August Wilson ...

**NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON!Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America.**August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer ... En savoir plus

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**NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON!Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America.**August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer
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Sweat (TCG Edition)

par Lynn Nottage ...

Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play“Lynn Nottage’s best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations.” –Hilton Als, New YorkerLynn Nottage has written one of ... En savoir plus

$20.79 CAD

Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play“Lynn Nottage’s best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations.” –Hilton Als, New YorkerLynn Nottage has written one of
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Slave Play

par Jeremy O. Harris ...

“The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — Wesley Morris, New York TimesThe Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America ... En savoir plus

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“The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — Wesley Morris, New York TimesThe Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

par Anna Deavere Smith ...

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event. ... En savoir plus

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Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.
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The Penis Papers, a play

par Joshua Todd James ...

An up-close comic examination of what it means to grow up with penis.The first time you touch it...The first time someone else touches it...The first time it touches you...Everything one really needs to know in order to own and operate a penis.THE PENIS PAPERS, a play by Joshua James ... En savoir plus

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An up-close comic examination of what it means to grow up with penis.The first time you touch it...The first time someone else touches it...The first time it touches you...Everything one really needs to know in order to own and operate a penis.THE PENIS PAPERS, a play by Joshua James
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The Amen Corner

A Play

par James Baldwin ...

Collections series Vintage International
From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston HughesIn his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront ... En savoir plus

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From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston HughesIn his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront
... En savoir plus
The White Card

A Play

par Claudia Rankine ...

A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters’ disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful ... En savoir plus

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A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters’ disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful
... En savoir plus
Mastering Story Structure - A Guide for Writing Unforgettable Plays

par Bill Johnson ...

Bill Johnson uses reviews of Romeo and Juliet, The Heidi Chronicles, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and The Iceman Cometh to teach the art and craft of writing powerful plays. Using these plays, he shows how new playwrights can learn the craft of writing for theater from masters of the stage.Bill is author of the website, A Story is a Promise, where he writes about popular novels, films, and plays. ... En savoir plus

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Bill Johnson uses reviews of Romeo and Juliet, The Heidi Chronicles, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and The Iceman Cometh to teach the art and craft of writing powerful plays. Using these plays, he shows how new playwrights can learn the craft of writing for theater from masters of the stage.Bill is author of the website, A Story is a Promise, where he writes about popular novels, films, and plays.
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Driving Miss Daisy

par Alfred Uhry ...

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for DramaSurprising, luminous, and powerful. It will mostl likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy. —Laurie Winer, Los Angeles TimesA timeless American play, which inspired the Academy Award–winning film, Driving Miss Daisy is a delicate depiction of racial tensions and growing old. Set in Atlanta, Alfred Uhry tells the ... En savoir plus

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Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for DramaSurprising, luminous, and powerful. It will mostl likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy. —Laurie Winer, Los Angeles TimesA timeless American play, which inspired the Academy Award–winning film, Driving Miss Daisy is a delicate depiction of racial tensions and growing old. Set in Atlanta, Alfred Uhry tells the
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Ruined (TCG Edition)

par Lynn Nottage ...

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday“An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest ... En savoir plus

$18.39 CAD

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday“An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest
... En savoir plus
Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays

par Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...

• World premiere in 2014 at Soho Rep (New York, Off-Broadway). Production sold out, extended, and was met with rave reviews.• Shared the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play with Appropriate, also written by Jacobs-Jenkins.• Based on An Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama by Irish writer Dion Boucicault.• Should be of interest to academic audiences interested in investigating race, ethnicity, ... En savoir plus

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• World premiere in 2014 at Soho Rep (New York, Off-Broadway). Production sold out, extended, and was met with rave reviews.• Shared the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play with Appropriate, also written by Jacobs-Jenkins.• Based on An Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama by Irish writer Dion Boucicault.• Should be of interest to academic audiences interested in investigating race, ethnicity,
... En savoir plus
Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)

par Suzan-Lori Parks ...

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for DramaA darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the ... En savoir plus

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Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for DramaA darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the
... En savoir plus
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

par Lorraine Hansberry ...

From the award-winning author of A Raisin in the Sun, comes one of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater: an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice."Rich and warm and funny... beautifully written.” —Los Angeles TimesThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, along with A Raisin in the Sun, are milestones. ... En savoir plus

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From the award-winning author of A Raisin in the Sun, comes one of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater: an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice."Rich and warm and funny... beautifully written.” —Los Angeles TimesThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, along with A Raisin in the Sun, are milestones.
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A Christmas Carol - Drama Script

par Daris Howard ...

In this adaption of the story by Charles Dickens, the playwright has used his skills as a playwright, as well researching both the time period and the life of Dickens, to bring an understanding of who Scrooge was, why he was the way he was, and what Dickens was trying to share in this story. For example, the phrase 'humbug', often used by Scrooge, in our modern language would be close to the word ... En savoir plus

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In this adaption of the story by Charles Dickens, the playwright has used his skills as a playwright, as well researching both the time period and the life of Dickens, to bring an understanding of who Scrooge was, why he was the way he was, and what Dickens was trying to share in this story. For example, the phrase 'humbug', often used by Scrooge, in our modern language would be close to the word
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Gloria (TCG Edition)

par Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...

“The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year’s best shows…Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let’s just say it hits the bull’s-eye.” —Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post“Funny, blistering tragicomedy…along with a delightfully omnipresent, biting wit…You’ll be unsettled by Gloria, perhaps even haunted.” —Peter Marks, Washington PostAn ambitious group ... En savoir plus

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“The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year’s best shows…Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let’s just say it hits the bull’s-eye.” —Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post“Funny, blistering tragicomedy…along with a delightfully omnipresent, biting wit…You’ll be unsettled by Gloria, perhaps even haunted.” —Peter Marks, Washington PostAn ambitious group
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Venus

par Suzan-Lori Parks ...

Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after ... En savoir plus

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Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after
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