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 Blasted
Sarah Kane
Premiering in 1995, Sarah Kane's first play took Britain by storm. The poetic depths of violence and horror told with unparalleled clarity and imagination were unlike anything on stage before. Her bold, terrifying, beautiful plays remain at the vanguard of contemporary playwriting, and Blasted is no exception. 2M 1F. Softcover, 120 pp. $18.00.
 Sarah Kane: Complete Plays
Sarah Kane
The plays in this volume have been described as" shocking and defining moments
in recent British theatre." Plays include Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48, Psychosis, and Skin. $32.95.
 How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Fin Kennedy
When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in a seafront fortune teller's in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was. Softcover, 108 pp. $22.95.
 Prayer Room
Shan Khan
There was a place where the Christians and the Muslims existed in relative
peace. Everyone was more or less happy, except for the Jews -- who
were few and had to be thankful to their Christian overlords for
the little
space they were accorded. Then one day, more Jews came, and it soon
became apparent to them that they'd need their own space. So they
got their own space -- but at the Muslims' expense. The Muslims of
course are fuming; the Jews feel they're perfectly within their rights;
and
the Christians are trying to take a back seat and let the other two
share the blame. This place is a multi-faith prayer room in a British
college. M-7, F-2. Softcover, 106 pp. $21.00.
 Notes on Falling Leaves
Ayub Khan-Din
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is
empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own
feelings about why they try, but just can't, communicate. M-1, F-1. Softcover,
18 pp. $14.95.
 Henry (After Pirandello)
Thomas Kilroy
Actor Richard McMillan is Henry, a man of enormous wealth and privilege, who believes he is the eleventh-century Holy Roman Emperor and German King Henry IV. A fortress is built and actors are hired to carry out his fantasy. But is he mad or are we? Adapted from Luigi Pirandello's Enrico IV, Kilroy's version transports Pirandello's main character into twenty-first-century Hollywood with sensationally dramatic results. 6M, 3W (flexible casting). Softcover, 43 pp. $10.99.
 The Madame Macadam Travelling Theatre
Thomas Kilroy
Softcover, 79 pp. $17.95.
 It Felt Empty ... When the Heart Went at First But it is Alright Now
Lucy Kirkwood
This is a luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute. 2w. Softcover, 53 pp. $22.95.
 The Black Album
Hanif Kureishi
An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it's 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West. Adapted from the playwright's novel of the same name M-7, F-2. Softcover, $24.95.
 The Sugar Wife
Elizabeth Kuti
Hannah Tewkley is torn between her work with the city's poor and her husband
Samuel's prospering business: a string of oriental teahouses. Their new guests,
Alfred, an English philanthropist, and Sarah, a freed slave, are both scarred
by the horrors of America's Deep South. The visit begins with the best of intentions,
but all four characters find it increasingly difficult to maintain their lofty
ideals. M-2, F-3. Softcover, 85 pp. $22.95.
 Kwame Kwei-Armah: Plays 1
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei Armah's astonishing, and dramatic writings about the black experience in Britain, and the human experience in general, are fearless and extraordinary. Collected here are the plays Elmina's Kitchen, Fix Up, Statement of Regret, and Let There Be Love. Softcover, 335 pp. $29.00.
 Statement of Regret
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Taking a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and questions of solidarity with a racial group, Statement of Regret is Kwei-Armah's third play for the National Theatre. In this new play we meet Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a black policy think-tank. We track the relationships with his son and other members of the community when put under the pressures of media interest, disinterest, and family disaster. Softcover, 90 pp. $16.50.
 Fix Up
Kwame Kwei-Armah
It's Black History month but you wouldn't know it in Tottenham where plans
are afoot to turn Kwesi's All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats,
and it
looks like Kiyi's "conscious" bookstore will go the same way. And
then a beautiful visitor shows up in the midst and life goes from bad to worse.
M-3,
F-2. Softcover, 81 pp. $20.95.
 Elmina's Kitchen
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Things aren't looking so great for Deli down in Murder Mile,
Hackney. He's trying to revive the fortune of his mother's restaurant,
but where does his son disappear to on the night of the long-awaited
re-opening? And why is his friend Digger offering him protection? Elmina's
Kitchen is a thrilling portrait of a one-parent familiy struggling
to stay within the law while the neighbourhood gets turned upside-down.
Softcover, 94 pp. $22.95.
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