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 Betrayed
George Packer
Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country's religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the mostly young men and women who embraced America's project so enthusiastically that they were prepared to risk their lives for it by aiding the U.S. forces constituted a small minority. On a cold, wet night in January 2007, George Packer met two such Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad to hear their stories and those of other Iraqis working as translators and additional key personnel for the U.S. military and occupation authorities. Based on Packer's account in The New Yorker, betrayed is a riveting and morally complex drama that explores in the Iraqis' own words the ways in which we have already abandoned them. Softcover, 108 pp. $14.50.
 Humana Festival 2002
The Complete Plays
Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener
Softcover, 397 pp. $29.95.
 Levittown
Marc Palmieri
When Kevin returns early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be married. With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive father who left them years before. Amidst the thin walls of their Levittown home, the members of this beleaguered family are forced to confront a concealed history, the self-destructive nature that has plagued them for generations, and the failure of faiths onto which they have desperately held. Softcover, 58 pp. $10.99.
 Ladies of the Corridor
Dorothy Parker & Arnaud D'Usseau
New York's Hotel Marlowe is a place where idle, middle-class women learn to be alone. Dependent on men all their lives and now aged and either divorced or widowed, the women fill their hours with gossip, movies, mystery novels, endless needlepoint, and restorative naps. Enter Lulu Ames, the newest arrival and most recently widows. Hoping to make up for years lost in a suffocating marriage, she begins a sensational affair with a much younger man. Softcover, 110 pp. $13.00.
 365 Days/365 Plays
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play a day for a whole year. 365 Days/365 Plays will world premiere in a simultaneous and shared grassroots theatre festival involving hundreds and hundreds of theatres and countless artists around the country. Softcover, 409 pp. $24.95.
 Luminescence Dating
Carey Perloff
Luminescence Dating is a thriller about a lost statue, a lost son, an ancient mystery and a love affair between two desperately mismatched people. Angela Hart has spent the better part if her career searching for a voluptuous naked Aphrodite sculpted by Praxiteles in the fourth century B.C.E. and has lost to history. Ultimately the statue is never found, but the heat generated by the search yields its own delicious rewards! Softcover, 56 pp. $10.99.
 Phoenix
Scott Organ
Four weeks ago Bruce and Sue hooked up. It was nice, but it didn't exactly work out. Yet now they find themselves on a 4,00 mile journey well beyond the confines of their carefully structured worlds. 1M, 1F. Softcover, 70 pp. $11.99.
 The Triangle Factory Fire Project
Christopher Piehler
Saturday, March 25, 1911, 4:45pm. A fire breaks out in the Triangle Waist Factory
off downtown Manhattan's Washington Square, and in the space of 28 minutes,
146 people, mainly young immigrant girls, have died. This play uses eyewitness
accounts, court transcripts and other archival material to create a dramatic
moment-by-moment account of this historic fire and the social upheaval that
followed. Softcover, 72 pp. $9.99.
 My Name is Asher Lev
Aaron Posner
This play follows the journey of a young Jewish painter torn between his Hassidic upbringing and his desperate need to fulfill his artistic promise. When his artistic genius threaten to destroy his relationship with his parents and community, young Asher realizes he must make a difficult choice between art and faith. This stirring adaptation of a modern classic presents a heartbreaking and triumphant vision of what it means to be an artist. 2m, 1w. Softcover, 50 pp. $11.99.
 Life is Short
Craig Pospisil
This hilarious collection of short plays is a comical look at relationships
from childhood to old age. Some are charming and light, others are dark and
absurdist, but all eight gleefully portray people at their worst. Includes: Class
Conflict, On the Edge, Whatever, Double
Wedding, Infant Morality, A Mother's Love, The
American Dream Revisited, and The Last December.
Softcover, 71 pp. $9.99.
 Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Television has habituated us to visual entertainment measured out in spoonfuls of time. But what happens when we come to expect the same things from our politics and public discourse? What happens to journalism, education, and religion when they too become forms of show business? Softcover, 183 pp. $16.50.
 The Dream of Chief Crazy Horse
David Pownall
An epic play written to be performed by children, The Dream of Crazy
Horse covers ten thousand years in the history of the American Indian.
Joined in his dream by his old opponent General Crook, Chief Crazy Horse narrates
the brutal history of North America, from the crossing to the new world, through
the European colonisation of the sixteenth century, to the American Indian's
place in popular culture and the legend of the West. Softcover, 77 pp. $19.95.
 Enron
Lucy Prebble
In Enron, one of the most infamous scandals in financial history is tranformed into a theatrical epic. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, the play follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009. Softcover, 114 pp. $21.95.
 The Dirty Talk
Michael Puzzo
In Michael Puzzo's comedy The Dirty Talk, Lino and Mitch, an outrageously mismatched pair of strangers find themselves stranded in a hunting cabin - in the mountains of New Jersey - during a ferocious storm. Unable to leave, we gradually find out these men aren't exactly here by mere happenstance. During their tumultuous day together, the two explore what defines being a man, the value of emotional intimacy, the lies we tell each other and most devastatingly the lies we tell ourselves. Softcover, 34 pp. $10.99.
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