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American Plays
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 Wildflower
Lila Rose Kaplan
A woman and her unusual son look to escape their past in Crested Butte, a small town with its share of secrets. They encounter a curious girl, a forest ranger and an ex-drag queen. The five collide in a summer of botany and sexual awakening. Wildflower explores the discovery of desire and its consequences. 3m, 2w. Softcover, 87 pp. $11.99.
 Speech & Debate
Stephen Karam
Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are linked by a sex scandal that's rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth, secrets become currency, the stakes get higher, and the trio's connection grows deeper in this searching, fiercely funny dark comedy with music. Softcover, 96 pp. $10.99.
 Kaufman & Co.
George S. Kaufman and others
This is the most comprehensive collection of plays by George
S. Kaufman and his collaborators ever assembled: Dinner at Eight, The
Royal Family, Animal Crackers, June Moon, The
Man Who Came to Dinner, Of Thee I Sing, Once in a Lifetime, Stage
Door, and You Can't Take It With You. Hardcover. $51.00.
 Absalom
Zoe Kazan
With his family gathered, Solomon Weber is set to celebrate both his birthday and the publishing of his autobiography. But to what extent, his son wonders, does the book betray or invent family secrets among this thoroughly artistic clan? And when an estranged member of the family arrives at the party to challenge Saul about the authorship of an earlier book, his reappearance sets in motion confrontations and shifting allegiances. 4m, 2w. Softcover, 72 pp. $11.99.
 Beat Generation
Jack Kerouac
Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma
-- what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends,
honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around
a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power
of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of
the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives. Hardcover, 120 pp.
$22.95.
 The Black Monk: A Chamber Musical
Wendy Kesselman
After five intense years of study in Moscow, Andrei returns home to his faithful guardian Igor and rekindles his attachment to Tanya, his childhood love. Andrei's artistic obsession thrives in the embrace of this adoring family, but the Black Monk, a spectral and charming figure only Andrei sees, threatens to lure him into the unknown. A spellbinding chamber musical inspired by Chekhov's classic story, The Black Monk, shows us a man in the grip of genius, madness, and loss, despite the enduring power of love. Softcover, 51 pp. $12.99.
 The Notebook
Wendy Kesselman
The Notebook follows the relationships of two students with each other
and with their English teacher. Kesselman's play captures perfectly the ebullience
of literary awakening, the extreme vulnerability of the young and sensitive
to their mentors as well as the unfathomable cruelty adults are capable of
visiting on the young. The Notebook dramatizes passion for books and
poetry and learning. 1M, 1W, 1 boy, 1 girl. Softcover, 50 pp. $9.99.
 Arsenic
and Old Lace
Joseph Kesserling
The story of the charming
and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains
of socially and religiously acceptable roomers and the antics of
their nephews, Teddy, who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, and Mortimer,
a manic theater critic. A must for all non professional groups;
a ready made comedy hit. $9.99.
 One Night a Week
Richard Harris, Mary Stewart-David & Denis King
This heart-warming, toe-tapping musical chronicles several months in the life of a beginners tap dancing class set in the gym of an old YMCA community centre in the suburbs. 1m, 9f . Softcover, 131 pp. $11.99.
 Al's Business Cards
Josh Koenigsberg
When New Jersey Gaffing Assistant Al Gurvis accidentally gets his new business cards swapped with those of real-estate agent Eileen Lee, he's mildly annoyed. Little does he know that this tiny mix up has sparked a chain reaction which will ultimately ruin his life. 4m, 1f. Softcover, 51 pp. $11.99.
 Goldfish
John Kolvenbach
A young man raises his father. Then he leaves home. He meets a young woman who undoes him. The young woman has her own story: a woman who is a force of nature. It's a play about legacy -- how do we become who we are? -- and it's about leaving home. We raise our children to leave us, to walk out into the world. But then they do. 2m, 2w. softcover, 56 pp. $11.99.
 Gizmo Love
John Kolvenbach
Locked in an office by an unseen producer, Hollywood veteran Manny McCain takes on the assignment of his life: to shape the sloppy opus of a gifted, guileless young writer into the next great crime noir. When Max and Thomas, two career criminals arrive, all hell breaks loose. A reckless comedy, a satire and a valentine, a drama of fathers and sons, and a collision between the real world and the world of our imaginings, Gizmo Love is like nothing you've seen before. 4m. Softcover, 60 pp. $11.99.
 Fabuloso
John Kolvenbach
Kate and Teddy are trapped in soggy, lifeless marriage. Then Teddy's old friend Arthur arrives, bearing chaos, knives, songs and his fiancee. Fabuloso is a domestic farce about the pleasure in bedlam and a working metaphor for bringing up babies. 2m, 2w. Softcover, 64 pp. $11.99.
 On an Average Day
John Kolvenbach
The action is set in the kitchen on a small house in upstate New York, the home of the acutely lonely Robert. The place is piled high with old newspapers, and something is rotting so horribly in the fridge that the simple task of extracting a beer poses a major health risk. Robert is clearly in desperate trouble. Then his older brother Jack arrives, as neat and controlled as his sibling is wild and unraveled. On an Average Day is a mystery play, a moving psychological drama and a black comedy, a thrill ride full of twists and turns. Softcover, 53 pp. $10.99.
 Love Song
John Kolvenbach
Beane is an exile from life--an oddball. His well-meaning sister Joan, and brother-in-law, Harry, try and make time for him in their busy lives, but no one can get through. Following a burglary on Beane's apartment, Joan is baffled to find her brother blissfully happy and tries to unravel the story behind his mysterious new love, Molly. Funny, enchanting, and wonderfully touching, John Kolvenbach's offbeat comedy is a rhapsody to the power of love in all its forms. Softcover, 63 pp. $10.99.
 Play Yourself
Harry Kondoleon
This madcap comedy focuses on Jean, an ex-movie star, and the
three people in her life: her daughter Yvonne (who just wants to
be left alone, Selma (an obsessed fan, who is fixated on Jean's
on-screen characters), and Brother Harmon (a pious man who sweeps
Yvonne off her feet). M-1, F-3. Softcover, 40 pp. $9.99.
 Pig Farm
Greg Kotis
On a struggling pig farm, Tom and Tina (with the help of Tim, their hired hand) fight to hold onto everything they own - namely, a heard of fifteen thousand restless pigs. Dumping sludge into the river has driven Tom to drink, and Tim seems to have caught Tina's eye, but when Teddy, a gun-toting officer of the Environmental Protection Agency arrives to inspect the operation, life on the farm explodes, implodes, then explodes again. Not literally, of course, but...you get the idea. From the quirky and comical mind that brought you Urinetown. Softcover, 63 pp. $10.99.
 Urinetown: The Musical
Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman
In a Gotham-like city, a depletion of the earth's water supply has lead to
a government-enforced ban on private toliets. The priviledge to pee is regulated
by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of
humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero has risen who will lead
them to freedom. An innovative and acclaimed new musical. Softcover, 103 pp.
$21.00.
 Eve-olution
Hilary Illick & Jennifer Krier
Alison and Liza are navigating the channels of motherhood as they take a revealing
and sometimes comedic look at the balancing act of promise and compromise.
Both women test the vision of who they think they are, who they wish to be,
and ultimately who they become as individuals, as mothers, as professionals
and as members of their families. F-2. Softcover, 73 pp. $9.99.
 2.5 Minute Ride/101 Humiliating Stories
Lisa Kron
"Lisa Kron turns humiliation into transcendence and the Holocaust into a wild roller coaster ride - her power as a writer/performer is a gift to the American stage." - Paul Vogel. Softcover, $16.95.
Angels
in America,
Part One: Millennium Approaches
Part Two: Perestroika
Tony Kushner
A gay fantasia on national themes. $18.95.
Available as a box set - $35.00.
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