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SECOND BOY (lifting the sail in the stern). It's Foxy. He's crept back under the sail. Foxy—wake up! No dogs are chasing you. Nobody's biting you. (He shakes him.) There! Now you're awake. Here, sit up! It's morning. FIFTH GIRL.
Rather Left of Centre, at a card table, LORD ST ERTH, an old John Bull, sits facing the audience; to his right is GENERAL CANYNGE, to his left AUGUSTUS BORRING, an essential Clubman, about thirty-five years old, with a very slight and ...
... to his right is GENERAL CANYNGE, to his left AUGUSTUS BORRING, an essential Clubman, about thirty-five years old, with a very slight and rather becoming stammer or click in his speech. ... Don't know why I play it – never did.
This collection contain two one-acts, RUBBERS and YANKS 3 DETROIT 0 TOP OF THE SEVENTH, and two full-length plays, FIGHTING INTERNATIONAL FAT and STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE.
When we quarrelled, father, you said you didn't care what became of me. BUILDER. I was angry. ATHENE. So you are now. BUILDER. Come, Athene, don't be childish! Promise me! ATHENE. [With a little shudder] No! We were on the edge of it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The three plays in this volume illustrate Kleist's genius and versatility. Includes: "Prince Friedrich von Homburg, " a tautly plotted clash of love, honor, and obedience to State; "The Broken...
Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary performer/playwright, renowned throughout the world for his radical satires. This volume contains two major plays together with two more intimate one-act plays which he...
Although long neglected, the four plays collected in this critical edition reveal the thoroughly modern nature of her concerns.
Fassbinder's version of modern post-civilized terror was, like much else about his work, ahead of its time. --San Francisco Chronicle
Volume 1 contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. This edition also contains 3 early monologues, in print for the first time.
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'A bright room called day' is set in Germany in 1932 and 1933, and concerns a group of friends caught up in the events of the fall of the Weimar...
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This collection of plays by one of Britain's most prominent political dramatists offers the best of his work from the 1980s. The plays include The Romans in Britain, Thirteenth Night,...
... KILLER: You'll be getting bigger against that wall in a minute! HARRY: It's flying! KILLER: You'll be flying if you don't give me that money! HARRY: Look, Killer, look!! (KILLER looks casually and then does a double take – 14.
Collected here for the first time are three of Zacarías’ award-winning plays – Native Gardens, The Book Club Play, and Destiny of Desire – three works that explore American and Latino life today with Zacarías’ trademark humour, ...