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 The Witch of Edmonton
Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley, edited by Arthur Kinney
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, 115 pp. $18.00.
 Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict forever changes the
life of the orphaned Pip. Turning his back on his humble beginnings
as a blacksmith's apprentice, he strives to better himself and become
a gentleman, unaware of the hidden dangers that await him. Nick Ormerod
and Declan Donnellan's new adaptation of Great Expectations lays bare
a tissue of lies and guilt in Dickens's least sentimental love story.
It also tackles big questions of identity while mustering a cast of
unforgettable characters. M-16, F-7. Softcover, 99 pp. $22.95.
 Unsuitable Girls
Dolly Dhingra
Meet Chumpa Chamelli -- bored secretary at Concrete Weekly, twenty-something
girlfriend of the laddish Ashok, a woman who knows her own mind and expects
more from life. With East End mates Mandy and Sab in tow, Chumpa sets off in
a search for a better man, a better job, and an ending straight out of the
movies. Softcover, 101 pp. $25.95.
 Songs of Grace and Redemption
John Donnelly
In the city, there is who we are and who we want to be. Five desperate people make life-changing decisions to rescue themselves - and each other - through random acts of kindness. And urban fairy tale of house wine, home porn, maps, cats and heavy metal. Softcover, 87 pp. $19.00.
 The Prisoner's Dilemma
David Edgar
A large cast play produced by the RSC at The Other Place, the play tells of
the new Europe that emerged in the wake of the Cold War. $17.99.
 Mother Teresa is Dead
Helen Edmundson
Softcover 80 pp. $19.95.
 David Eldridge - Plays: 1
David Eldridge
Includes Serving It Up, Summer Begins, Under
the Blue Sky and M.A.D.
Softcover, 351 pp. $34.95.
 Festen
David Eldridge
Helge is sixty. It is a time of celebration. A time for the family
to gather and smooth over the cracks left by the suicide of Linda, twin
sister to Christian. As Helge's eldest son, Christian will raise the
first toast. Confined within the family house, the guests are rocked
by the revelations that pierce and destroy the veneer of mid.dleclass
respectability. M-9, F-4. Softcover, 64 pp. $22.95.
 The Complete Poems & Plays
T. S. Eliot
Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures
of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays,
published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work
for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations
to Four Quartets, and includes such literary landmarks as The
Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and Murder
in the Cathedral. Softcover, 608 pp. $29.00.
 Forty Winks
Kevin Elyot
From the back row of the local cinema to an anonymous hotel room, one man's
obsession has not let him rest. But, as Don encounters an old flame, is the
past about to catch him out? With Forty Winks, Kevin Elyot
takes us once again into the realm of thwarted desire, while playing on the
painful comedy that can ensue from the gulf between social decorum and the
turbulent emotions that lie just beneath. Softcover, 52 pp. $19.95.
 Four Plays
Kevin Elyot
Coming Clean, My Night with Reg, The
Day I Stood Still, and Mouth to Mouth are featured
in this brilliant collection of Kevin Elyot's plays. Softcover, 305 pp. $27.95.
 The Man of Mode
George Etherege, Edited by John Barnard
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, 164 pp. $18.00.
 The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar, Edited by John Ross
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, 148 pp. $18.00.
 The UN Inspector
David Farr
Spotted at the Marriott by government aides in search of a decent cappuccino,
a British businessman nonentity is mistaken for the dreaded UN inspector.
While he exploits the situation for all it's worth, presidential panic
ensues as ex Soviet Ministers make farcical attempts to cover up the
corruption that lies at the State's core. M-13, F-5. Softcover, 112
pp. $21.00.
 Talk About the Passion and Rattlesnakes
Graham Farrow
In Talk About the Passion, a young child is horrifically murdered and
the autobiography of the serial killer is a hit publication. Jason Carroway
is forced to endure the guilt at failing to protect his son and the
media attention that accompanies the release of the killer's autobiography.
This award-winning play is a moving and powerful exploration of loss,
society's collusion in the glamorisation of evil, and the desire for
justice.
Rattlesnakes examines the seedy world of the gigolo providing sex
to bored and lonely wives. A vigilante group of husbands seeks retribution
in this hard-hitting study of betrayal and personal failure.
Softcover, 74 pp. $20.95.
 Losing My Marbles
Trader Faulkner and John Goodwin
Softcover, 54 pp. $25.95.
 Scots Plays of the Seventies: An Anthology
Bill Findlay
The six plays gathered together in this anthology are seminal works
in the unprecedented flowering of Scottish drama that occured in the
1970s. Included are Willie Rough by Bill Bryden, The Jesuit by
Donald Campbell, The Burning by Stewart Conn, The Hardman by
Tom McGrath, The Rising by Hector MacMillan, and The Bevellers by
Roddy McMillan. Softcover, 372 pp. $26.95.
 The Tamer Tamed
John Fletcher
In John Fletcher's irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel'
to The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio marries for a second
time and is tamed by his wife Maria in a reversal of roles that
has echoes of the sex-strike in Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Written
20 years after Shakespeare's original, The Tamer Tamed is
also a revealing insight into changing attitudes to women. Softcover,
100 pp. $22.95.
 The Crimson Hotel and Audience
Michael Frayn
In The Crimson Hotel, two lovers escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel straight out of Feydeau, but conjured by the playwright from the empty landscape of the desert. Also included is an older one-act play, Audience, which began life as the first act of Look Look. Softcover, 81 pp. $16.50.
 Democracy
Michael Frayn
In Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the
unknown events of twentieth-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency
and sublety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as
he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966. M-10. Softcover, 134 pp. $18.95.
 Copenhagen
Michael Frayn
An elegant, fiercely intelligent drama that reimagines a mysterious 1941 war-time
meeting between two Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist,
and Niels Bohr, his Danish counterpart, were old friends and close colleagues.
However, now on the opposite sides of a world war, the questions they once
asked for the thrill of knowledge are now fraught with danger and danger. $18.00.
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