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1	The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.79! \| first editions
2	Our town; a play in three acts more books like this by Thornton Wilder add to wishlist An illustrated hardcover edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, first produced in 1938, follows the changes that gradually occur in the lives of two early-twentieth-century New Hampshire families and their neighbors. 15,000 first printing. see all copies from £1.28! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
3	Fences: A Play more books like this by August Wilson, Lloyd Richards (Introduction by) add to wishlist The author of the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, returns with another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him new critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of FENCES, Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be - to survive. For Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America ... see all copies from £4.48! new only from £4.48! \| first editions
4	August: Osage County more books like this by Tracy Letts add to wishlist Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people."-"Time Out New York" "Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still ... see all copies from £5.89! new only from £5.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Clean House and Other Plays more books like this by Sarah Ruhl add to wishlist "Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. "The Clean House" shines."-"New Haven Advocate" ""The Clean House" is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease, death, and dirt are among the subjects it addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, but in the ... see all copies from £9.74! new only from £9.74!
6	Wit more books like this by Margaret Edson add to wishlist This Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerns the intersection of metaphysical poetry and terminal cancer. The character Vivian Bearing, a prominent professor, assesses her life during a traumatic hospital stay. see all copies from £3.53! new only from £3.53! \| signed copies
7	Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry add to wishlist The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. see all copies from £3.27! new only from £3.27! \| first editions
8	A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by Robert Bolt (Preface by) add to wishlist Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.01! \| first editions
9	The Vagina Monologues more books like this by Eve Ensler (Read by) add to wishlist Gloria Steinem's introduction supplements this special edition of this controversial and beloved play, which has been performed by Glenn Close, Susan Sontag and many others. A feminist meditation, this Obie Award-winning piece considers the attitudes of women of various ages toward their vaginas. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Appro more books like this by Professor Tony Kushner add to wishlist Tony Kushner's two-part masterwork is now available in a single edition to coincide with the broadcast of the epic HBO special directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow, scheduled for December 2003. see all copies from £6.85! new only from £9.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? A play more books like this by Edward Albee add to wishlist This modern American play watches an evening with two couples and the lies they fabricate about themselves to keep on living. It is a vicious and haunting drama. see all copies from £5.44! new only from £5.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Glengarry Glen Ross more books like this by David Mamet add to wishlist First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. see all copies from £1.54! new only from £1.62! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Laramie Project more books like this by Moises Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project add to wishlist A small town faces bigotry and fear in this docu-drama depicting the aftermath of the tragic 1998 murder of the young gay man, Matthew Shepard. As his murder became emblematic of the violence and prejudice faced nationwide by members of the gay community, the townsfolk in Laramie, Wyoming, try to make sense of the event. see all copies from £5.41! new only from £5.41! \| first editions
14 view cover	Death of a salesman certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem more books like this by Arthur Miller add to wishlist Arthur Miller's classic portrait of an ordinary man's struggle to leave his mark on the world -- now in Twentieth-Century Classics for the first time On its New York premiere in 1949, Death of a Salesman was hailed as the first great play to lay bare the emptiness of America's relentless drive for material success. The extraordinary success of the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Arcadia more books like this by Tom Stoppard add to wishlist Tom Stoppard's play primarily concerns Thomasina Croom, a brilliant 13-year-old who is searching for the proof to Fermat's theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the rudiments of what we now know as chaos theory. All the while, her mother is pursuing Lord Byron, a guest at their estate, while her tutor is pursuing the wife of another ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Reasons to Be Pretty more books like this by Neil LaBute add to wishlist In "Reasons to Be Pretty," Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof get back to Steph. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation ... see all copies from £5.41! new only from £5.41!
17 view cover	Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra more books like this by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill add to wishlist Three plays by Eugene O'Neill: "Desire Under the Elms," "Strange Interlude," and "Mourning Becomes Electra." see all copies from £1.25! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
18 view cover	Sam Shepard, Seven Plays more books like this by Mr. Sam Shepard add to wishlist Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. "One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."--"The New Yorker" "The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.97!
19 view cover	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years more books like this by Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth add to wishlist In this compelling oral history, the Delany sisters recall their formative years, growing up as members of a distinguished middle-class black family in Raleigh, North Carolina, and their years in New York, where Bessie became a noted dentist in the Harlem community, and Sadie was the first African-American teacher of science employed by the New ... see all copies from £1.99! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
20 view cover	Doubt: A Parable more books like this by John Patrick Shanley add to wishlist "A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as "Doubt" holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best." ... see all copies from £4.78! new only from £4.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches more books like this by Professor Tony Kushner add to wishlist Louis and Prior are lovers trying to deal with the fact that Prior has AIDS; Harper and Joe are a heterosexual Mormon couple, although Joe is actually trying to conceal his homosexuality. Joe works for Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped Senator McCarthy with communist persecution and who himself went after gays although he was gay and died of AIDS. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play more books like this by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E Lee add to wishlist In 1846, Henry David Thoreau was imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes to a government whose war against Mexico he argued was unconstitutional. Three years later, he wrote "Civil Disobedience," an account of his thoughts, his actions, and the results of those actions. "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail" dramatizes Thoreau's brief prison stay, and his ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The Shape of Things more books like this by Neil Labute add to wishlist This drama peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships. see all copies from £5.24! new only from £5.24!
24 view cover	Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays more books like this by Steve Martin add to wishlist Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Death and the Maiden: Tie-In Edition more books like this by Ariel Dorfman add to wishlist Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.68!

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