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 Gong Donkeys
Richard Cameron
School's out and David has been sent to spend the holidays with his
Aunt Deelie, Uncle Robert and cousin Charlene in the rough part of
town. Gong Donkeys is a hilarious, bizarre and touching story about
storytelling, as told by The Catcher in The Rye, an SAS commando and
Charlene from number 27. M-4, F-2. Softcover, 94 pp. $20.95.
 The Pride
Alexi Kaye Campbell
Alternating between 1958 and 2008, The Pride examines changing attitudes to sexuality, looking at intimacy, identity, and the courage it takes to be who you really are. 3M, 1F. Softcover, 131 pp. $22.95.
 On Blindness
Glyn Cannon
After seeing everything, Shona is to move in with her boyfriend Dan.
When faced with the blind and erotic Maria, Edward struggles to see her
passion and to articulate his feelings. As their respective evenings
unfold simultaneously on stage, illumination comes to all concerned in
Glyn Cannon's innovative and searing exploration of love and relationships.
M-2, F-2. Softcover, 82 pp. $22.95.
 Defender of the Faith
Stuart Carolan
Stuart Carolan's raw and intriguing play depicts the tragic consequences of
family deception and divided loyalties in present-day Ireland. Defender
of the Faith tells the story of a fractured family, entrenched in
violent and uncompromising republicanism, which finally shatters when a senior
figure in the IRA visits the farm to hunt out a suspected informer. Bleakly
humorous and chillingly real, Carolan's play explores the conflict between
familial loyalty and political beliefs. M-6. Softcover, 69 pp. $19.95.
 Woman and Scarecrow
Marina Carr
Leaving behind her eight children and a remorseful husband, a passionate
Woman, now gaunt and weak, surveys her like as she faces death and
asks what she could have been. Full of mordant, bitter humour, this
is a
fierce and beautiful lament from one of Ireland's leading playwrights.
Softcover, 77 pp.$21.99.
 Bell in Campo & The
Sociable Companions: Two Plays
Margaret Cavendish
Edited by Alexandra G. Bennett
These two works are scathing satires which speak to the role of women's
agency amidst the cultural tumult of the closed public theatres during
the English Civil War. Softcover, $15.95.
 Free Outgoing
Anupama Chandrasekhar
When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed with a boy in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Transmitted from person to person it infects firstly the local community and then seemingly the whole of India with a burning moral outrage which pillories both the girl and her family. M-4, F-3. Softcover, 53 pp. $22.95.
 A Night at the Dogs
Matt Charman
On the evening of their first race, five men await the arrival of a dog that
they hope will change their fortunes. But before they've even left for the track,
a violent situation erupts and the night of their dreams, along with the fate
of an innocent man, hangs in the balance. M-5. Softcover, 101 pp. $21.00.
 The Mousetrap and Selected Plays
Agatha Christie
Collected here are four plays by the mistress of suspense, Agatha Christie.
Besides The Mousetrap, also included are And Then There Were
None, Appointment of Death , and The Hollow. Softcover,
366 pp. $10.99.
 Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
Caryl Churchill
A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for love and adventure with American Sam. Softcover, 42 pp. $14.95.
 The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse, adapted by Anthony Clark
Anthony Clark's award-winning adaptation of Albert Lamorisse's fifties French film, The Red Balloon, follows the adventures of a lonely Parisian boy and a stray balloon which befriends him. It enjoyed a successful run at the Royal National Theatre in 1996. Softcover, 111 pp. $23.00.
 A Disappearing Number
Complicité
In London, a man attempts to unravel the secrets of his lover. In India a woman collapses on a train. In Cambridge in 1914, Englishman G H Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan. This is the altest award winning play from the maverick theatre company, Complicite. Softcover, 91 pp. $20.95.
 Love For Love
William Congreve, Edited by Malcolm Kelsall
The New Mermaids collection is a modernized and fully annotated series of classic English plays. Each volume includes the playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibligraphical and textual standards, textual notes recording substantive changes to the copytext and variant readings, glossing notes elucidating obscure words and word-play, critical, contextual and staging notes, photographs of the productions where applicable, a full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discussed authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading. Softcover, 126 pp. $18.00.
 The Way of the World
William Congreve
The New Mermaids collection is a modernized and fully annotated series of classic English plays. Each volume includes the playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibligraphical and textual standards, textual notes recording substantive changes to the copytext and variant readings, glossing notes elucidating obscure words and word-play, critical, contextual and staging notes, photographs of the productions where applicable, a full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discussed authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading. Softcover, 120 pp. $18.00.
 Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie
How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions eloquently posed by Rachel Corrie, a young American activist killed on March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family home in the Gaza Strip. She was twenty-three years old. These are her thoughts, feelings, and ideas -- as expressed in her private journal. Softcover, 313 pp. $15.50.
 My Name is Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie
Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between
a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? My Name is Rachel Corrie tells
the story of her short life and sudden death, from the words she left behind.
The writings of Rachel Corrie have been edited by Alan Rickman and Katherine
Viner, and produced for the stage with the kind permission of Rachel Corrie's
family. Softcover, 52 pp. $22.95.
 Four Restoration Libertine Plays
Michael Cordner
The Libertine by Thomas Shadwell; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etherege; A Fond Husband by Thomas Durfey; Friendship in Fashion by Thomas
Otway. Softcover, 414 pp. $22.95.
 Tonight at 8:30
Noel Coward
This collection brings together ten short plays which Noel Coward wrote in 1935 and which he intended to be played in trios on successive evenings. They marked his desire to revive the dying art of the one-act play and to display in multiple roles the highly popular acting talents of Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Softcover, 270 pp. $37.99.
 Present Laughter
Noel Coward
At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanors is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. M-5, F-6. Softcover, 113 pp. $16.50.
 The Noel Coward Audio Collection
Noel Coward
From moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familar Coward targets
and personal reminiscences, this delightful collection is a perfect blend of
vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners alike.
This collection includes two short stories, Cheap Excursion and The
Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe, and various poems. And from the Caedmon
Treasury, Coward himself and Margaret Leighton perform Coward's adaption of his Brief
Encounter, scenes from Blithe Spirit and Present
Laughter, the interlude from Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart,
concluding with the duo reading more from Coward's Collected Verse.
Audio CD. $42.50.
 Happy Now?
Linda Coxon
A young woman struggles to balance family life, fidelity, and a testing job in this painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life. 4M 3F. Softcover, 70 pp. $11.99.
 The City
Martin Crimp
Clair wants to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children - but the garden's empty, and the key to the playroom's disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here? Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world. Softcover, 64 pp. $18.00.
 The Author
Tim Crouch
In this play the story unfolds for you. With you. Of you. It is the story of another play; a violent, shocking and abusive play written by a playwright called Tim Crouch. It charts the effect that play had on the two actors who acted in it, the playwright who wrote it and an audience member who watched it. 2M 2F. Softcover, 60 pp. $22.95.
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