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  • Christopher Durang Explains It All for You

    6 Plays

    A collection of dark comedies about terrible therapists, dysfunctional parents, and more, from a winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and three Obies.Known for his dark, absurd humor and social commentary, Christopher Durang explores the pain and confusion of everyday life—and makes audiences laugh uproariously at the results. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, the center of a storm of ... Read more

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  • Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater

    Two Plays

    A pair of plays from the comic genius who gave us the Tony Award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.Baby and the Bathwater follows its main character from infancy to adulthood, in a confusing search for identity after an unusual upbringing. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf ... Read more

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  • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

    Tony Award Winner, Best Play: "Hugely entertaining…deliciously madcap…offers some keen insights into the challenges and agonies of 21st-century life."— USA TodayNominated for six Tony Awards, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, ... Read more

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  • Miss Witherspoon and Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge

    Two Plays

    From one of theater's most outrageous comic talents, two plays—one a Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist, the other a twisted take on Christmas classics.In this book, Christopher Durang, the criminally funny author of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, presents two plays about death, religion, and a creamy Christmas pudding. In Miss Witherspoon—named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by ... Read more

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  • Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

    And Other Political Plays

    "[A] hilarious and disturbing new comedy about all-American violence" and other whip-smart political satires by the Tony Award-winning playwright (Ben Branley, The New York Times).Christopher Durang, who The New York Observer called "Jonathan Swift's nicer, younger brother," became one of America's most beloved and acclaimed playwrights by marrying gonzo farce with incisive social critique. Now ... Read more

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  • Betty's Summer Vacation

    Pitch-black humor and brutal social commentary from the Tony Award-winning playwright: "Relentlessly fierce, relentlessly funny."—Ben Brantley, The New York TimesLooking for a little rest and time by herself, Betty rents a summer share at the beach. But Betty's luck turns when this sensible Everywoman gets drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates: her friend Trudy, who talks ... Read more

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  • The Marriage of Bette and Boo

    A painfully funny, Obie Award-winning play about the tragedy and comedy of family life.Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The Marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest families in creation in a portrait album of life's uncertainties and confusion. Bereaved by miscarriages, undermined by their ... Read more

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  • American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism

    Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

    This powerful anthology brings together reflective and raw plays by American playwrights surrounding the psychic and political boundaries of the many faces and shadows of terrorism.Allan Havis's introduction addresses a variety of terrorism cases from the last 25 years, examines several theories of the root causes of modern terrors, and underscores how theatre forms a unique contour to social and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    A Play

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    I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spring Awakening

    Translated by Jonathan Franzen ...
    From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind's major modern play, Spring Awakening.Featuring an introduction by Franzen.First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)

    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes

    Series Book 454 - Mammoth Books
    With over 10,000 entries, arranged by topic and fully indexed, here is a giant new collection of witticisms and wisecracks for the 21st century. If you're looking for a bon mot for an after-dinner talk, struggling to put the finishing touches to a wedding speech or just want to cheer yourself and your mates up, this fabulous fat book provides all you'll ever need.Entries range from insults, put ... Read more

    $2.99 USD