A Taste of Honey

Author	Bryony Lavery
ISBN	0571211291

One evening, ten-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an academic, comes to England to research a thesis entitled "Serial Killings: A Forgivable Act?" Then there's Ralph, a loner with a bit of a record who's looking for some distraction . . ....

Author	Timberlake Wertenbaker
ISBN	0413737403

This became an amazing stage production, which I ended up designing for, so it does hold a certain place in my heart, so I finally decided to read the book on which it was based.
Doomed from the start. I love things like this. It's a real slice of what makes Australia so freekin wild and fearless. In a penal...

Author	Tracy Letts
ISBN	0573627363

This exciting first play by the author of August: Osage County premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf before going on to acclaimed productions in London and New York.

Hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money, "Killer Joe" takes the daughter to bed as a retainer...

Author	Mark Ravenhill
ISBN	0413712400

This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which frankly dealt with issues of sex and violence and pointedly challenged societal values. The play explores how consumerism has become our new...

Author	Brian Friel
ISBN	0571214584

When I was reading Faith Healer, this script got two distinctions from me: (1) being one of the most depressing things I have ever read, and (2) probably being the first play I've encountered where I actually wondered whether or not it would work on stage as well as it does on the page. I mean, it must work,...

Author	Caryl Churchill
ISBN	0413554805

Now this is one dinner party I would have loved to participate in, shame it was a women's only affair. I guess playing the waiter would come a close second, just so I could overhear the conversation on offer between six charming ladies, five of which return from history.

There is the host of course,...

Author	Michael Cristofer
ISBN	0573616132

In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly whose martial complications...

Author	David Mamet
ISBN	0822219441

A play about to high class ladies with two very interesting secrets. The whole play is basically these two friends bantering and arguing through the entire thing. But the way David Mamet captures this is shocking! These ladies say things to eachother that would make you question if they are truly "ladies"...

Author	Theresa Rebeck
ISBN	0573693811

Comedy / 2 male, 2 femaleScenery: Interior

Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle. The combatants are a sexy, volatile young woman and three Back Bay types a writer, a...

Author	Jez Butterworth
ISBN	1848420501

Notgettingenough and I went to this critically acclaimed play a couple of nights ago at the West End. I watched the whole thing with rapt attention; Not, as she sometimes does, took a short nap halfway through. I imagined this would give me an advantage during the post-mortem, but I should have known better.

"So...

Author	John Osborne
ISBN	0140481788

John Osborne’s works took the pulse of post-war Britain. Perhaps they did so too much, and many of the attitudes held by the characters now seem dated and harder for us to reach now. Even the nicest characters in The Entertainer hold views of casual bigotry concerning women, gay people and ethnic minorities...

Author	Joe Orton
ISBN	0413567605

A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money...

Author	Harold Pinter
ISBN	0822207044

امید از میان می رود اما تمنا دست ناخورده می ماند
جاکامو لئوپاردی

نقش بازی کردن زن و شوهری برای آنچه که از دست داده اند: اشتیاق
شوهر نقش فاسق را برای زن...

Author	Charlotte Keatley
ISBN	0413684709

Charlotte Keatley's first main stage play My Mother Said I Never Should explores the difficult relationships between mothers and daughters, moving the play back and forth between the lives of four generations of women—their desire to love and be loved, their expectations and choices, all set against...

Author	Martin Crimp
ISBN	0571236693

Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre
by Martin Crimp
Attempts to describe her?
Attempts to destroy her?
Or attempts to destroy herself?
Is Anne the object of violence?
Or its terrifying practitioner?
Martin Crimps 17 scenarios for the theatre, shocking...

Author	Conor McPherson
ISBN	1854596438

Theater magic! I wanted to see the much praised recent New York production but couldn't make it. Though reading a play is a shadow of a live performance, the power of fine plays comes through nonetheless. This is certainly the case with The Weir. Five people in a remote Irish pub, each with his or her longings,...

Author	Simon Stephens
ISBN	1408126362

Based on the playwright's experience as a teacher, this play explores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. Contemporary and unnerving the story explores the pressures of teenage life as as group of educated, intelligent...

Author	John Patrick Shanley
ISBN	0822202697

The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is...

Author	Kenneth Lonergan
ISBN	0802138551

With his acclaimed plays This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery and his Oscar-nominated film You Can Count on Me, Kenneth Lonergan has been called "the new golden boy of stage and screen" by The New York Times. Now he returns to the stage with Lobby Hero, which has been praised as "smart, funny ... [a]...

Author	Annie Baker
ISBN	1559363894

Includes The Aliens: an exploration of friendship and music in the lives of three misfits behind a coffee shop; Circle Mirror Transformation: a meditation on life within the rhythms of an adult drama class; Nocturama: a dark comedy in which a grown son returns home to live with his mother and stepfather;...

Author	Edward Albee
ISBN	0452278090

Edwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before.

Its...