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 Hunter Gatherers
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
A friendly, civilized dinner party slowly unravels and descends into ritual slaughter, sexual violence and dancing as the line between civilized and primal man is totally blurred in this dark, wildly original comedy. 2M, 2W. Softcover, 60 pp. $11.99.
 Parallel Lives
Mo Gaffney & Kathy Najimy
In Parallel Lives, two Supreme beings plan the beginning of the world
with the relish of two slightly sadistic suburban wives decorating
a living room. With great wit and a feminist sensibility, this play
reexamines
the ongoing quest to find parity and love in a contest handicapped
by capricious gods -- or, in this case, goddesses. Softcover, 134
pp. $9.99.
 Next Fall
Geoffrey Nauffts
Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. While the play's central story focuses on the five-year relationship between Adam and Luke, Next Fall goes beyond a typical love story. This timely and compelling new American play forces us all to examine what it means to "believe" and what it might cost us not to. 4m, 2w. Softcover, 73 pp. $11.99.
 Savages
Anne Nelson
Based on a true story, Savages takes place in 1903, a few years after the United States invaded the Philippines to free them from the Spanish colonial rule. But American troops now finds themselves fighting a long, costly war against the people they originally came to liberate. Anne Nelson treats all of her characters with sympathy and touches of humour. The play's fusion of meticulously researched U.S. military history with Asian mysticism yields a spellbinding vision of war and its casualties. Softcover, 67 pp. $10.99.
 The Retreat From Moscow: A Play About a Family
William Nicholson
In Retreat From Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands,
tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage,
and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again. This drama
shines a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage.
2M, 1W. Softcover, 114 pp. $17.00.
 Conversations in Tusculum
Richard Nelson
Set in the village of Tusculum in 45 B.C., Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum is a riveting new work about power - and the abuse of power - in ancient Rome that has startling resonance with our age. Softcover, 104 pp. $15.50.
 Goodnight Children Everywhere and other plays
Richard Nelson
A splendid collection of Richard Nelson's plays, including: Some Americans
Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors, New England, Goodnight
Children Everywhere, and Franny's Way. Softcover,
419 pp. $28.95.
 'night, Mother
Marsha Norman
A single night in a country home with a mother and daughter. The set up is simple, but by the end of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the subjects of suicide, love, and the meaning of life have been mined to devastating effect. 2f. Softcover, 89 pp. $15.50.
 Purple Heart and The Infidel
Bruce Norris
Bruce Norris's explorations of the shadowy recesses of love and loss crackle with quick wit and crisp dialogue. In Purple Heart (M-2, F-2), a mysterious visitor arrives at the midwestern home that a Vietnam War widow, deep into drink, shares with her 12-year-old son and her intrusive mother-in-law. And in The Infidel (M-4, F-2) after a tortured affair with a young woman, a fallen jurist finds himself judging the most difficult case of his life -- his own. Softcover, $22.50.
 Ruined
Lynn Nottage
Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of the Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on human life. This is a haunting play about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. 8m, 4w. Softcover, 70 pp. $11.99.
 Intimate Apparel and Fabulation
Lynn Nottage
With her two latest plays, Lynn Nottage has created companion pieces that
span one hundred years in the lives of two African-American women. Intimate Apparel is about the empowerment of Esther, a proud and
shy seamstress in 1905 New York who creates exquisite lingerie
for both Fifth Avenue boudoirs and Tenderloin bordellos. In Fabulation,
Nottage re-imagines Esther as Undine, the PR-diva of today, who
spirals down from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back
in Brooklyn. Through opposite journeys, Esther and Undine achieve
the same satisfying end--one of self-discovery. Softcover, 141
pp. $20.95.
 Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
Lynn Nottage
Fabulation is a social satire about an ambitious and haughty
African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly disappears
after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the brink of social and financial
ruin, Undine retreats to her childhood home in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman projects,
only to discover that she must cope with a crude new reality. Undine faces the
challenge of transforming her setbacks into small victories in a battle to reaffirm
her right to be. M-4, F-5 (doubling) Softcover, 56 pp. $9.99.
 Crumbs From the Table of Joy and other plays
Lynn Nottage
Crumbs From the Table of Joy (F-5); POOF! (M-1,
F-2); Por'knockers (M-5, F-1); Mud, River, Stone (M-5,
F-2) and Los Meninas (M-4, F-5, extras). Softcover, 324 pp.
$26.95.
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