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Plays Added to the Collection - May 2018

by Barbara Bishop on 2018-05-30T07:39:00-05:00 in English Language & Literature, Theatre | 0 Comments

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color by Roberta Uno (Editor)

Call Number: PS 627 .M5 C66 2018

ISBN: 9781138189461

Publication Date: 2017-09-01

In the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color was published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially. Work by female writers and writers of color is more widely produced, published, and studied than ever before. Drawing from an exciting range of theaters, large and small, from across the country, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics. From the playful to the painful, this revised and updated edition presents a rich array of voices, aesthetics, and stories for a transforming America. --Amazon

You Got Older by Clare Barron

Call Number: PS 3602 .A837246 Y68 2015

ISBN: 9780573704147

Publication Date: 2015-09-01

"When Mae's dad gets sick at the same moment her life implodes, she ends up moving in with him back home. A tender and darkly comic new play about family, illness and fantasy--and how we learn to keep going." --Back cover.

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch

Call Number: PR 6102 .I72 R48 2017

ISBN: 9780573705533

Publication Date: 2017

A wildly experimental and inventive new play that does not behave. Playwright Alice Birch has put together a grouping of vignettes that ask how to revolutionize language, relationships, work, and life in general while bursting at the seams of conformity. --Samuel French

The Roommate by Jen Silverman

Call Number: PS 3619 .I55235 R66 2017

ISBN: 9780573705410

Publication Date: 2017

"Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-fifties, needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robyn's secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life - and what happens when the wheels come off."--Page 4 of cover.

Blood Play by Hannah Bos

Call Number: PS 3602 .O822 B56 2015

ISBN: 9780573703744

Publication Date: 2015

A tranquil suburban evening in the early 1950s: the kids are away on a Junior Cherokee camping trip and a string of coincidences leads to a spontaneous grown-up party in the basement of a new ranch house. Exotic cocktails are imbibed, raucous games are played, and new friends are made, but much is happening that no one is talking about. And something is stirring underground. Blood Play is a darkly comic thriller of post-war verve and pre-adolescent disquiet, created by New York's critically lauded The Debate Society.

How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl

Call Number: PS 3618 .U48 H69 2017

ISBN: 9781559365727

Publication Date: 2019-01-08

"At a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp, Pip, in Jane's office. When they invite Pip and her two male partners, discussion turns to action and the exploration of unexplored desire turns animalistic, and then Jane's daughter sees it all." --Page [4] of cover.

Nice Fish by Mark Rylance & Louis Jenkins

Call Number: PR 6118 .Y42 N53 2016 ELECTRONIC

ISBN: 9781780018430

Publication Date: 2016

On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need. Something that might just swallow them whole. --Provided by publisher.

100 Great Plays for Women by Lucy Kerbel; Kate Mosse (Foreword by)

Call Number: PN 6120 .W6 K47 2013 ELECTRONIC

ISBN: 9781780012957

Publication Date: 2013-11-18

Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'there aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse. Women buy the majority of theatre tickets, make up half the acting profession and are often the largest cohort of any youth theatre or drama club. And yet they have traditionally been underrepresented on stage. 100 Great Plays for Women seeks to address this gap by celebrating plays that put female performers centre stage. Lucy Kerbel's myth-busting book features compact and insightful introductions to 100 plays, each of which has an entirely or predominantly female cast, with the female characters taking an equal or decisive role in driving the on-stage action. Also featured are 10 plays for solo female performers.

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