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Brothel #9 by Anusree Roy Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper 
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Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre by Kirsty Johnston Publisher Comments Over the past three decades, disability theatre artists have claimed greater space on Canadian and world stages. While disabled figures and themes are theatre mainstays, productions tend to employ disability figuratively rather than engage with actual... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $109.75 New - Hardcover
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Julius Caesar (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments This richly documented Norton Critical Edition of Julius Caesar is based on the 1623 First Folio text. It is accompanied by a note on the text, an introduction that sets the biographical and historical stage necessary to appreciate this richly allusive... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $17.25 New - Trade Paper
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Invisible Country: Four Polish Plays (Intellect Books - Play Text) by Teresa Murjas Publisher Comments The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland’s history, with artists and writers working under difficult sociopolitical conditions. This book contains the first English- language translations of four plays... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister (Oberon Modern Plays) by Rebecca Peyton Publisher Comments Rebecca Peyton, the younger sister of a BBC journalist murdered in Somalia, offers up a funny, heartfelt play about death and other taboos. In this political and personal, one-woman account of life after Kate, Peyton crafts a moving and often comic... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Incident at Antioch/L'Incident D'Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts/Tragedie En Trois Actes (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C) by Alain Badiou Publisher Comments Widely translated and considered to be the most important philosopher of our time, Alain Badiou is also a novelist and the author of four celebrated comedies and two tragedies. The Incident at Antioch is the last of his plays to be published in French... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Hippolytos (Griechische Dramen) by Euripides Synopsis In Euripides drama, Hippolytus angers Aphrodite, the goddess of love, so much by worshiping the hunting goddess Artemis that she makes his Stepmother, Phaedra fall in love with him. Phaedra 's aged nurse persuades her to confess her love and then informs... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (20th Anniversary Edition) by Tony Kushner Publisher Comments A revised edition of one of the most influential plays of our time, published with a new forward by the author, and debuting in celebration of Signature Theatre Companys Tony Kushner season.... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Mixed Company: Three Early Jamaican Plays by Yvonne Brewster Publisher Comments The plays in this collection each look back at Jamaica's pre-independence days, and each has a distinguished place in the history of Jamaican theatre. Each of these previously unpublished plays is accompanied by an introduction from their trailblazing... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $35.25 New - Trade Paper
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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) by Heather Davis-fisch Synopsis Argues that performance is a crucial way of understanding the affective intercultural impact of the disappearance of John Franklins Northwest Passage expedition in 1845.... (read more) Available September 4, 2012 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) by Rebecca Rovit Publisher Comments New laws enacted in the wake of Hitler’s ascent to power removed all Jews from their professional workplaces and banned Jewish artists from any collaboration with their fellow citizens. In the summer of 1933, Goebbels’s Prussian Theatre... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $46.75 New - Trade Paper
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Chalet Lines by Lee Mattison Synopsis A new comedy by Lee Mattison for the Bush Theatre.... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $23.50 New - Trade Paper
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Much ADO about Nothing (Signature Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments Shakespeare's sharp comedy about mistaken identities, false suspicions, and a very “merry war” between the lovers Beatrice and Benedick is presented in a gorgeous volume with paper-cut illustrations by Kevin Stanton and contextualizing essays... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Rape of Europe by Gregory Motton Publisher Comments Join Gengis Khan on the eve of the 2009 European elections as he goes on his first trip to Brussels, the beating heart of Euroland. But democracy in the Euro-zone isnt quite what Gengis had in mind and his intensive education in EU governance transforms... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $23.50 New - Trade Paper
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Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business by Richard Stim Synopsis The No. 1 bestselling business book for bands! If you belong to a band and love the art of your job, but sing the blues when it comes to the business side, you need Music Law. Composed by musician and lawyer Richard Stim, the book explains how to... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $39.99 New - Trade Paper
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Aias: A New Translation Publisher Comments Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Aias is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet James Scully. Still... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $7.99 New - Trade Paper
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Outward Bound by Sutton Vane Publisher Comments Seven passengers meet in the saloon bar of a ship as it sets sail from an unidentified English port. The travelers have more in common than they dare to suspect. A February 2012 production at the Finborough Theatre is the long overdue revival of this... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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A Few Man Fridays by Adrian Jackson Publisher Comments A Few Man Fridays unearths an inglorious episode of British history. Between 1967 and 1973, the population of the Chagos Islands was evicted to make way for a US military base. This new play from Cardboard Citizens and Artistic Director Adrian Jackson... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando: Two Renderings for the Stage by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments "[Ruhl's Orlando] captures both the intellectual spirit and the literary brilliance of Woolf's work. . . . Ruhl writes with the imaginative sweep that allows Woolf's poetry to soar."—Variety "Sarah Ruhl's smart new translation [of Three... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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After the Revolution and 4000 Miles: Two Plays by Amy Herzog Publisher Comments "After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences."—Variety "A funny... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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