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The Tempermentals
Jon Marans
"Temperamental" was the code for "homosexual" in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals tells the story of two men -- the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich -- as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States. 5m (doubling). Softcover, 75 pp. $11.99.
Time Stands Still
Donald Marguiles
Returning from Kandahar scarred and badly injured after a horiffic accident in Kandahar Sarah, an adventurous photojournalist approaching middle-age, is presented with the possibility that capturing images of war-torn countries might not be as noble and important an act as she had previously assumed. She and her partner try reclaim their relationship and their lives in the aftermath of deep physical and emotional trauma in Donald Marguiles traditional and compelling drama. Softcover, 86 pp. $18.95.
Brooklyn Boy
Donald Margulies
Funny and moving, in equal measures, Brooklyn Boy is a superbly
crafted tale about looking back -- not with misty-eyed nostalgia, but with
a lucid sense of the present tense. In this play, Donald Margulies considers
a life lived with bad decisions, wrong directions, and regrets. Brooklyn
Boy is masterful work by a playwright who is fully matured and in
complete control of his medium. M-4, F-3. Softcover, 94 pp. $19.95.
Two Days: Two Short Plays
Donald Marguilies
This double-cast double bill opens with Last Tuesday, which finds commuters
on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical details
of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently, and shockingly,
intrudes. July 7, 1994 is a haunting exploration of a day in the life
of a female physician working in an inner-city health clinic. 2M, 4W, 1 boy.
Softcover, 62 pp. $9.99.
Too Old for the Chorus, But Not Too Old to Be a Star
Marie Cain, Mark Winkler & Shelley Markham
This is a smart, funny musical revue about men and women who find themselves suddenly 50! Set in their neighborhood retro coffee shop, five characters express, over 18 musical numbers, the gamut of their frustrations and joys. 3m, 2f . Softcover, 60 pp. $11.99.
These Shining Lives
Melanie Marnich
These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it's true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits -- or endanger the lives of those who come after them. 2m, 4w. Softcover, 69 pp. $11.99.
A Sleeping Country
Melanie Marnich
A dreamy comedy about sleep lost and hope found. Julia, a woman from New York City with a serious case of insomnia, travels to Venice seeking help from a sleepless heiress who might be a distant relative. What she discovers is the difference between being an insomniac. 1m, 3w (doubling). Softcover, 50 pp. $11.99.
Underpants
Carl Sternheim & Steve Martin
Steve Martin's hilarious reinterpretation of Carl Sternheim's 1910 comedy,
is scathing examination of our fascination with fame, our reliance on gender
roles, and our enslavement by sex. M-4, F-2. Softcover, 152 pp. $15.95.
Ascension Day
Timothy Mason
On the bank of a beautiful lake, nine teenagers pursue the typical activities
of of a church-camp retreat. However, with the moon full, and hormones racing,
the cries of the loons carry a message of menace and loss. Ascension
Day focuses on two sisters, Faith and Charity, as they move unconsciously
and inadvertently from a relationship of friendship and trust towards a rift
which seems likely to be permanent. M-4, F-5. Softcover, 39 pp. $6.99.
The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers
to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, "Black" and "White", as the
two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through
his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing
worldviews. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence
of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an
ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men--though he
is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as
White is to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover
the meaning of life. Deft, spare and full of artful tension, The
Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking,
and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers
of our time. Softcover, 143 pp. $17.95.
Extinction
Gabe McKinley
Extinction follows two college buddies whose annual outing of male-bonding and debauchery veers precipitously off course when unmet expectations spiral into a volatile showdown. A darkly funny drama exploring the evolution of friendship -- and the lengths to which we go to save them from falling into extinction. 2m, 2f. Softcove, 60 pp. $11.99.
Some Men and Deuce
Terrence McNally
In Some Men, Terrence McNally takes us on a multigenerational journey of gay life in America. In interwoven vignettes, McNally uses the same characters at different points in their lives to address such issues as coming out, marriage, adoption, the military, and the AIDS crisis. In Deuce, we meet Leona and Midge, two septuagenarian ladies doubles tennis champions who are reunited to be honoured at the U.S. Open. As they watch the next generation of female athletes, these former tennis partners become embroiled in a head-to-head conversation as lively and nuanced as any match they ever played. Softcover, 180 pp. $20.50.
Some Men
Terrence McNally
Some Men is Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally at his best. Often funny and sometimes touching, Some Men looks at same-sex life and love against a background of some of the events that shaped the last century. Softcover, 67 pp. $10.99.
Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams
Terrence McNally
From Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally comes a powerful
play about how far one will go for one's love of the theatre. In
upstate New York, Lou, a drama teacher, and Jessie, a dog groomer,
become obsessed
with buying a derelict movie theatre and turning it into Captain
Lou and Miss Jessie's Magic Theatre for Children of All Ages.
Softcover, 103 pp. $17.50.
The Stendhal Syndrome -- Two Plays: Full Frontal Nudity and Prelude & Liebestod
Terrence McNally
"The Stendhal Syndrome" is named for the French novelist who experienced
overwhelming corporal convulsions when witnessing sublime artistic beauty. Full
Frontal Nudity explores the reaction of three American tourists to the perfection
and beauty of Michaelangelo's David. In Prelude & Liebestod, a renowned
conductor watches his life unravel while conducting Wagner's musical masterpiece.
The two plays in this collection take as their subjects the transformative power
of art. Softcover, 68 pp. $17.95.
Corpus Christi
Terrence McNally
McNally's unique view of the story of Christ.
Time magazine called the play "witty but not patronizing, as sober and as cleansing
as a dip in baptismal water" and named it one of the best plays of the year.
$18.50.
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally
At a beautiful Duchess County farmhouse, eight
men hash out their passions, resentments and fears over the course of three summer
weekends. $9.99.
Master Class
Terrence McNally
Pyrotechnical theater -- fireworks in a contained
space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang. $11.99.
The Mistakes Madeline Made
Elizabeth Meriwether
What happens if you stop showering? The Mistakes Madeline Made is a twisted and comedic coming-of-age story about a girl who develops Ablutophobia, the fear of bathing. Struggling with a soul-crushing job as a personal assistant, she wages a furious, funny war against all things complacent, pampered and clean. As her smell starts to overwhelm her co-workers and many casual lovers--a series of bad poets--the play raises the questions: Is dirty living a political act? And is clean living even possible in these times of unrest? An unlikely story of love and dirty people. 3M, 2W (doubling). Softcover, 39 pp. $10.99.
Finding Claire
Kim Merrill
After the sudden death of her adoptive mother, a rich New York City dancer embarks on a search for her birth mother's home. She longs for a family connection but ends up with a family crisis. In an impoverished farmhouse in rural upstate New York, her fifteen-year-old half-sister is pregnant - and wants to give up her baby. Her mother - a stubborn, introverted woman who carves rough rock sculptures as a way to express her frustrations - wants her to keep it. Her grandmother wants to be boss. Armed with good intentions and a desire to help her new family, the dancer arrives at their door. When she's met with a volatile mixture of envy, regret and resentment, her assumptions about identity, biological ties and what it "means" to be a mother are turned upside down. 4W. Softcover, 47 pp. $10.99.
Loves and Hours
Stephen Metcalfe
This is the story of Dan Tilney, newly divorced empty nester and a man now totally at a loss as to what to do with the rest of his life. In this gentle comedy, his friends and family try to help him through his mid-life crisis. 4m, 6f. Softcover, 85 pp. $11.99.
Arthur Miller Collected Plays 1944 -1961
Tony Kushner, one of America's most acclaimed living playwrights is the editor
of this inaugural volume of the collected edition of Miller's plays. This volume
contains The Man Who Had All the Luck, All My Sons, Death
of a Salesman, An Enemy of the People, The
Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View
from the Bridge ( 1 Act & 2 Act Versions), and The Misfits (
a novella). Also contains a chronology, notes on the text and notes. $49.00.
Resurrection
Blues
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller's penultimate play is a darkly comic satirical allegory that
poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world
today? Resurrection Blues asserts the interconnectedness of
our actions and each person's culpability in world events; it is ultimately
a comedic and tragic satire of precarious morals in our media saturated age.
Softcover, 112 pp. $15.50.
You've Got Hate Mail
Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore
A comic answer to A.R. Gurney's Love Letters. In You've Got Hate Mail, love 'bytes' all when an extra-marital affair goes horribly wrong, thanks to a juicy email left sitting on a desktop. The story is told entirely in emails from laptop computers, although the play still manages to have an unforgettable chase scene -- thanks to Blackberries and iPhones. 2m, 3f. Softcover, 51 pp. $12.99.
Slasher
Allison Moore
When she's cast as the "last girl" in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena thinks it's the big break she's been waiting for. But news of the movie unleashes her malingering mother's thwarted feminist rage, and Mom is prepared to do anything to stop filming ... even if it kills her. 2m, 4f. Softcover, 79 pp. $11.99.
The Ladies Man
Charles Morey
In Belle Epoque Paris, the recently married Dr. Hercule Molineaux tells "one tiny, little, hardly noticeable lie" to cover an innocent but embarrassing indiscretion. From that single untruth, a cascade of increasingly convoluted deceptions, misunderstandings and mistaken identities unfold in this hilariously zany and infectiously charming farce.
4m, 4f. Softcover, 80 pp. $11.99.
Laughing Stock
Charles Morey
When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a
repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley's
Aunt, comic mayhem
ensues. Laughing Stock is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely
affectionate look into the world of the theatre. M-9, F-5. Softcover,
74 pp. $9.99.
American Soldiers
Matt Morillo
A Long Island family full of war veterans and politicians fights to hold together in the face of traumatic experiences and emotional scars, both old and new. 3M, 2F. Softcover, 84 pp. $11.99.
The Four of Us
Itamar Moses
From the author of Bach at Leipzig comes a new play about loyalty, integrity, and the price of success. When Benjamin's first novel vaults him into literary stardom, his friend David, a struggling playwirght, is thrilled at Benjamin's newfound success...or is he? Should Benjamin help David by using his new connections? Can David even expect such favours from his friend? More important, who should pick up the tab at lunch? Softcover, 113 pp. $15.50.
Treefall
Henry Murray
In a dystopic future, where trees are dying and sunlight must not be allowed to touch human skin, three teenaged boys survive by reinventing a culture they never really knew. They cling to the shreds of civility by playing Daddy, Mommy and Junior, but the game has worn thin. And just when it seems that they can't get any worse, a stranger arrives with a terrible secret that changes everything. 3m, 1w. Softcover, 51 pp. $11.99.
The Happy Ones
Julie Marie Myatt
A man with the "perfect" life loses everything. In his search for meaning and happiness he finds an unlikely ally in the man inadvertently responsible for the death of his family. Sadness and redemption take centre stage in this surprising new play. 3M 1F. Softcover, 96 pp. $11.99.
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Randal Myler & Mark Harelik
Hank Williams: Lost Highway is the spectacular musical biography of the
legendary singer-songwriter frequently mentioned alongside Louis Armstrong,
Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Elvis and Bob Dylan as one of the great innovators
of American popular music.
M-7, F-3. Softcover, 63 pp. $12.95.
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