Author: Peter Hall
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: press, canada, playwrights, mask, exposed
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1559361905
ISBN-13: 9781559361903

Britain’s Sir Peter Hall is considered by many the most important director in his generation. As the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Old Vic, he has directed the greatest actors of our time in numerous seminal interpretations of Shakespeare and the Classics.In his latest work, Sir Peter Hall ranges over the extraordinary history of world drama to find the common experiences that are able to create the theatrical form. This series of 4 lectures were delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge as part of the famed Clark lectures which began in the

Author: Conor McPherson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: city, shining
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1559362553
ISBN-13: 9781559362559

Shining City has been an unqualified critical success and quite possibly Conor McPherson’s finest work. In Dublin, a man seeks help from a counselor, claiming to have seen the ghost of his recently deceased wife. But what begins as just an unusual encounter becomes a struggle between the living and dead—a struggle that will shape and define both men for the rest of their lives. Also included here is the one-act, Come on Over, about a Jesuit priest sent to investigate a “miracle” in his hometown, where he re-encounters the woman who loved him 30 years before. Conor McPherson was born in

Author: Conor McPherson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: authority, port
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1559362073
ISBN-13: 9781559362078

Port Authority is the tale of three generations of Dublin men on the subject of lost love in its many forms. A mesmerizing series of monologues from the acclaimed author of The Weir, St. Nicholas, This Lime Tree Bower, The Good Thief and Rum and Vodka. Another remarkable work from Ireland’s leading playwright.

Author: Eric Bogosian
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: version, new, suburbia
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1559363428
ISBN-13: 9781559363426

“Bogosian’s script retains the playwright-performer’s trademark vitriol and hammer wit.”—Time Out This new version of Eric Bogosian’s best-selling play, set in a convenience store parking lot, premiered last season Off Broadway. His rewrites—for a world seeped in cell phones, hip-hop, and a new political context—render the piece “an American anyplace where everything, yet nothing, has changed” (The New York Times). Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; a

Author: Joshua Sobol
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: ghetto
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1989-05
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1854590219
ISBN-13: 9781854590213

Author: Jessica Hagedorn
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: dogeaters
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1559362154
ISBN-13: 9781559362153

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) w

Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: plays, letter, red
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2001-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1559361956
ISBN-13: 9781559361958

"In the Blood is an extraordinary new play…It is truly harrowing…we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with "a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.’"—Margo Jefferson, The New York TimesThe playwright who "has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way [John Heilpern, Ne