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American Plays
American plays by playwright: T
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 Slipping
Daniel Talbott
Alone, numb, and friendless after the violent death of his father, high school senior Eli moves with his mom from San Francisco to a fresh start in Iowa. A new relationship with a boy at school exposes Eli again to the possibility of closeness and the danger of being swallowed by it. 3m, 1w. Softcover, 64 pp. $11.99.
 Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Stephen Temperley
For more than half a century the name Florence Foster Jenkins has been guaranteed to produce explosions of derisive laughter. Not unreasonably so, as this wealthy society eccentric suffered under the delusion that she was a great soprano. Souvenir, by turn hilarious and poignant, tells her story through the eyes of her accompanist, Cosme McMoon. Softcover, 49 pp. $10.99.
 Voice of Good Hope
Kristine Thatcher
Thatcher has written a wise and thought-provoking homage to the late Texas
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who was the first African-American woman to be
elected to Congress in the Deep South. Voice of Good Hope documents
the spirit of the woman who rose, against all odds, to be a powerful orator,
astute politician, great teacher and private citizen. 2M, 4W, 1 girl. Softcover,
52 pp. $9.99.
 Scarcity
Lucy Thurber
In a small town in Western Massechusetts, the Lawrence family struggles with poverty, boredom and lost potential. Into this isolated town comes Ellen, a highly educated, wealthy and well-traveled young woman who wants to give back to her country through education. She starts teaching in the public high school where Billy and Rachel Lawrence go, and she develops an obsession with Billy's intelligence. Her desire to lift Billy out of poverty tears the family apart. Softcover, 57 pp. $10.99.
 Stay
Lucy Thurber
A first-time professor, Rachel struggles to deal with her students while hurrying to finish her novel before the deadline passes. In addition, her brother has come to stay because he has just been fired from his job. But Rachel has a secret: She has an angel that talks to her. Spending her life withdrawn from the people around her, she shares all her love, fears, and hopes with something tthat isn't human. When Julia, one of Rachel's students, reveals that she has similar powers, Rachel has to decide to share all of who she is or to close herself off forever. Softcover, 50 pp. $10.99.
 Where We're Born
Lucy Thurber
Small-town America, class distinctions, sexual politics and love. Where We're Born explores the fact that sometimes in order to leave your home you have to destroy it. Lilly is a scholarship student from a very rural town. After her first year at college, she comes home to her cousin Tony, who functions as her combination father, brother and best friend. In an attempt to bring her new world and her old world together, Lilly breaks apart everything around her. Softcover, 58 pp. $10.99.
 Killers and Other Family
Lucy Thurber
Elizabeth is about to finish her dissertation. She is very much in love with her gilrfriend and their life together. But then her brother and his best friend show up, and they are on the run. Their arrival forces Elizabeth to confront her past and finally make a choice about the kind of person she wants to be. Softcover, 38 pp. $10.99.
 My Husband's Wild Desires
John Tobias
A wildly succesfull commedy on four continents, this is a hilarious play about sex, marriage and shaking things up. 3M, 2F. Softcover, 95 pp. $11.99. Softcover, 95 pp. $11.99.
 The Last Sunday in June & other plays
Jonathon Tolins
Alive, vital and entertaining are just a few of the words that have been used
to describe Jonathan Tolins' work. In the first play of this collection, The
Last Sunday in June we follow the struggles of Michael and Tom as they
contemplate, on Gay Pride Day, their move from Greenwich Village to the suburbs. If
Memory Serves is a satire of repressed memory and celebrity scandal. Lastly, Twilight
of the Golds is a play about genetics and homosexuality. The Last Sunday
in June: 7M, 1W. If Memory Serves: 4M, 4W. The Twilight of the
Gods: 3M, 2W. Softcover, 301 pp. $17.95.
 The Last Sunday in June
Jonathan Tolins
It is the last Sunday in June, the day of the annual Gay Pride Parade
through New York's Greenwich Village. Tom and Micheal, partners for seven
years intend to spend the day planning their move from the Big Apple
to an upstate town, but their plans are rerouted as one friend after
another drops by to view the parade from the window of their apartment. The
Last Sunday in June is full of bold surprises, hovering between a
parody of and an homage to the "gay play". 7M, 1W. Softcover,
61 pp. $11.99.
 Crooked
Catherine Trieschmann
Fourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be a writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart. Softcover, 68 pp. $11.99.
 Black Drama in America: An Anthology
Darwin T. Turner
This second edition of Black Drama in America presents
a cross-section of African-American drama written from the 1920's
to the present. Offered is a balanced selection of well-known plays
and dramas, grouped by decade, that furnish a representative history
of the African American playwright's development. Softcover, 736
pp. $60.99.
 Is
He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts
Mark Twain
Hardcover, 233 pp. $37.95.
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